The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China released a report this month highlighting how China is tightening control over foreign correspondents, further deteriorating the state of press freedom.
Campaign to Discredit BBC Revealed as Media Conditions Inside China Continue to Deteriorate
Posted by John Chan | Mar 5, 2021
A newly published report by the Australian Strategic Policy Initiative (ASPI) has documented how Chinese diplomats and other state-affiliated public figures engaged in a coordinated effort to discredit and undermine U.K.’s public broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). According to the report, the effort came after the BBC published a report alleging systematic rape in Xinjiang’s detention camps, as well as the decision by the U.K.’s media watchdog to revoke the broadcasting license of Chinese state-owned television broadcaster CGTN. ASPI’s Albert Zhang and Jacob Wallis
Beijing Declines to Say How It Will Guarantee Press Freedom During 2022 Winter Olympics
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs failed to provide specifics during its regular press briefing on March 2 about its promise of complete media freedom for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
Following a report released by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC), which indicated a “rapid decline in media freedom” in China, based on 150 responses to a survey of correspondents and interviews with bureau chiefs, a reporter from ZDF television at the briefing asked: “How do you respond to that [FCCC report]?
“For example, when we talk about the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, where there will be a lot of international journalists coming to China, in which way can they get the possibility to report objectively and with the freedom of media?”
China rebutted on Tuesday a biased and slanderous report issued by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China and said that it opposes ideological prejudice against China and fake news in the name of "press freedom".