Beijing intensifies attacks on foreign media, journalists to curb coverage
China's move to ban the broadcasting of BBC World News last month for reporting on human rights violations in Xinjiang has exemplified Beijing's escalating attacks on foreign media and journalists to curb independent coverage of its government. Eryk Bagshaw writes for the Sydney Morning Herald that China has unleashed a torrent of videos, photos and articles accusing foreign journalists of fabricating grey skies, media companies of being proxies for foreign intelligence services, and manufacturing suppression in Xinjiang, where over a million Uyghur Muslims have been detained. "There's cle...