both the central committee of the communist party as well as the state council chinas cabinetthe china news service cns is the secondlargest stateowned news agency in china after xinhua he saidits run by the united front work department and they report directly to the central committee of the chinese communist party peoples daily it goes without saying is the official newspaper of the central committee of the chinese communist party and then global times is wholly owned by peoples daily and takes its direction from them he addedthe communist party does not just exercise operational control over these propaganda entities but it has full editorial control over their content this foreign mission designation is an obvious step in increasing the transparency of these and other prc government propaganda activities in the united statesthis determination is not intended to reduce or constrain journalistic activity by foreign media outlets again these four entities are not media but propaganda outlets stillwell said