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Not a single foreign journalist working in China says conditions for news media improved in 2020, according to a report that says the Chinese Communist Party is using COVID-19 surveillance tools to scare members of the press.
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China’s BBC Ban Shows Increased Targeting of Foreign Media
February 26, 2021
A copy of the Chinese state-run Global Times newspaper with a headline about the U.S. presidential elections is displayed at a newsstand in Beijing, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
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China’s decision to ban BBC World News from its television networks suggests increased government efforts to restrict foreign media.
The ban took effect on February 11. It was ordered shortly after the BBC produced a series of stories about ethnic Uighur women in China’s Xinjiang region.
China’s order also came after the British agency in charge of broadcasting canceled the official permission of China’s CGTN news network to operate in Britain. British officials said the decision was linked to CGTN’s ties to China’s ruling Communist Party.