Senior members of Reuters, the Associated Press, TASS, and 260 other news agencies gathered on Monday, November 22, in Beijing, China, for the 4th World Media Summit – hosted by the official news agency of the Chinese Communist Party, the world’s leading authority on propaganda. The glaring question emerges, what is US media doing at a propaganda training seminar in China? Why is the media being schooled in propaganda techniques by a totalitarian regime?