BEIJING—The U.S. ambassador to China is accusing Beijing of using the “free press” in the United States to spread propaganda, a week after a state-run Chinese newspaper ran a four-page ad in an Iowa daily that touts the mutual benefits of U.S.-China trade.
Terry Branstad, also a former longtime governor of Iowa, wrote in an opinion piece in the Sept. 30 edition of the Des Moines Register that the Chinese regime “is now doubling down on that bullying by running propaganda ads in our own free press.
