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Its non what you say, its how you say it (Luntz, cited in Scheufele and Tewksbury, 2007 9).Introduction Agenda saddle horse describes the efficacy of those in positions of power, such as the mass media and influential political leaders, to tape transport salience to certain issues that they bear important, while pushing other issues that they deem less important to a lower priority and out of the unrestricted view. There is an abundance of literature on the agenda setting process, provided it is mainly foc mapd on agenda setting in the West. Therefore, this piece of music will way at agenda setting in China, which has a Communist administration in power that likes to use the influence and obtain it has and likes to apply harsh censorship on the media and its content. The Chinese mass media devote served effectively in agenda setting to conduct positive propaganda for caller ideologies and policies (Li, Qin, & Kluver, 2003) (Luo, 20121). It will look at whether the Chines e government is successful or not in employ its control over the media to promote the issues it believes in. The conclude of this paper will be to see the extent to which the Chinese government has control over the media. This will be done by using articles and blog posts from both government affiliated and independent sources that will booster in providing unbiased results. The lack of literature looking at agenda setting outside the West makes this an interesting case to study as it can provide additional information about and the opportunity to look for agenda setting in a Chinese context. Agenda setting is an important topic in political communications and China is proper a strong and powerful world player, therefore it is crucial to look at agenda setting in a Chinese context.Literat... ...6). Accessed eighteenth November 2013.Zhang, X., (2011), The Transformation of Political Communication in China - From Propoganda to Hegemony (World Scientific publishing Co. Pte. Ltd) . Zhao, Y., (1998), Media, Market, and Democracy in China - Between the party line and the hindquarters line (Urbana and Chicago University of Illinois Press). Zhou, Y., & Moy, P., (2007) Parsing Framing Processes The Interplay Between Online Public Opinion and Media insurance coverage Journal of Communications 57 79-98.Appendix...we reiterate that the media must cover up the grade in strict accordance with Xinhua News Agency telegraph copy downplay the story do not speculate on it do not exaggerate it do not put the story on the front page or website homepage do not produce any other reports or commentary do not use images...(October 30, 2013) (Henochowicz, China Digital Times, 2013).