Yeah, I mean, what you say can be true and what I say can also be true. There are foreign governments handing stories to reporters; handing endowments to universities; setting up "conferences" around their interests and paying speaker fees and travel expenses to journalists and academics alike to pimp their viewpoint. The same way that corporations and industries do, but with the interests of a foreign nation, rather than, for example, the cattle growers or missle makers of America.