Ah, then what is your point if they call out American aggression anyways because that aligns with the power elite interest (as they did during the Iraq war)?
The power elite has competing fractions, which are aligned for the most part (e.g. in economic policy), but have different (and often merely token) differences in other areas, like when to use the carrot and when the stick in foreign policy matters.
That other countries are their subjects upon which to use carrots and sticks, however, they agree perfectly.
You aren’t exactly wrong, but I disagree that some cabal of unified elites actually controls papers like the economist, but the same biases would arise because of their readership st any rate, which is true for any publication.
It isn’t as bad as The People’s Daily, for example.
Many, that criticize those countries from the perspective of what the power elites of those same countries want them to do.