Malaysia, China Intensify Media Co-operation

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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This Friday, both Malaysia and China have agreed to intensify their media cooperation in terms of information, talent as well as program exchange between the nations at a government-to-government level. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is expected to be made to help with the collaboration, informed the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Deputy Minister Datuk Jailani Johari according to Bernama.

He was addressing the Malaysian journalists after paying a courtesy call on his Chinese counterpart, Minister for Information Office of the Chinese State Council, Cai Mingzhao, in Beijing this Friday. Huang Chuanfang, the deputy editor-in-chief of China’s state broadcaster CCTV, hoped that now first-hand official information would be obtained through the establishment of cooperation with Malaysian government agency, Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM). He stated that the coverage of the missing flight MH370, where the TV station had no alternative but to use footages from foreign agencies, which he described the perspectives as much different with either Malaysia’s or China’s. “If there had been a collaboration agreement with RTM, the news coverage of the incident could have been different,” Huang said during a meeting with Jailani.

Huang, however, reiterated that CCTV as a state-own broadcaster would put bilateral relations between China and Malaysia as their top priority when reporting on the missing airliner. He said that the collaboration between CCTV and RTM would not be limited to the coverage of MH370, but will include issues such as economic and trade cooperation, as well as culture between two nations.

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