Xinhua News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, is no longer a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery, the president of the Gallery has confirmed. “The member from Xinhua News Agency did not submit a membership review form for 2020 as required annually,” Catherine Lévesque said in a statement. “Therefore, neither the member, nor the assigning organization is a current member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery.”  Lévesque said the agency “will have to submit a new application if it wants to request to be a part of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery.” Xinhua had been a member of the Gallery for 57 years, according to Blacklock’s Reporter. Founded in 1931, Xinhua started off as the Red China News Agency. It changed to its current name in 1937 and became the state news agency in 1949 after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took control of China. Xinhua has …