MORE DECOUPLING: State Department designates 5 Chinese media outlets ‘foreign missions.’ “The State Department is designating five Chinese media outlets ‘foreign missions,’ calling them, in essence, state-sponsored propaganda and agents of the Communist Party of China, officials announced Tuesday. State Department officials said the action came after repeated examples of how much of a ‘function of the state’ the companies have become. It took effect immediately.”

Watch out, Harvard and Yale . . . .