{"id":1882,"date":"2019-12-10T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2019-12-10T19:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:29:53","slug":"petr-kellner-backed-pro-china-media-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/petr-kellner-backed-pro-china-media-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Petr Kellner backed pro-China media campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The consumer finance group Home Credit, owned by the richest Czech Petr Kellner, hired a PR agency to improve the media image of the Communist Party of China and thus influence Czech society in its favour, news site Aktu\u00e1ln\u011b reported on Tuesday, citing documents in its possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From April to August 2019, money for some 2,000 hours of work was apparently paid by Home Credit to C&amp;B Reputation Management. The PR agency was hired to \u201chelp those who support the Chinese regime in the media and attack its critics\u201d and also organised the creation and activities of an institute called Sinoskop \u2013 Institut for Contemporary China, Aktu\u00e1ln\u011b writes. However, the director of the agency, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Sazima, says that its work was only to \u201cmoderate the debate about China and bring in relevant elements\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an annual report published last month the Czech counterintelligence service BIS considered the spread of China&#8217;s influence in the Czech Republic to be one of the greatest security threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credit: radio.cz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consumer finance group Home Credit, owned by the richest Czech Petr Kellner, hired a PR agency to improve the media image of the Communist Party of China and thus influence Czech society in its favour, news site Aktu\u00e1ln\u011b reported on Tuesday, citing documents in its possession. 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