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One week after the UK revoked the license for China’s CGTN broadcast, China retaliated against the BBC World News’ ban on airing in its country.
On the 12th, the state-run Global Times of China said, “The BBC has deliberately damaged China as it has become a’rumor factory”. Pointed out.
BBC news broadcasting is now completely banned in mainland China. Until now, it was possible to watch BBC news in some 4-star or higher hotels or foreign business and residential buildings.
Wang Shixin, a professor at China Monopoly University, argued that it was “a punishment that should be taken of course.”
Reports of the BBC’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and reports of the outbreak of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Wuhan brought fierce backlash from China.
The BBC recently reported testimony of torture and organized sexual assault in Xinjiang camps, but the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed the report as unfounded.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also raised objections in relation to the BBC’s reports that doctors in Wuhan suspected the high contagion of Corona 19, but failed to warn the authorities’ pressure.
On the 12th, the first day of the new year on the 12th of the lunar calendar, China’s National Radio and Television Administration (Photoelectricity Bureau) announced retaliation against the BBC.
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The BBC said that it has violated China’s national interests by violating the rules that the content of the report must be truthful and fair, and that it will not accept applications for a broadcasting license from BBC World News for one year.
Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK (Radio TV Hong Kong) also announced that it will stop broadcasting the BBC from this day due to the decision of the Optoelectronics Administration.
RTHK has been broadcasting BBC World News from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 the next morning.
In a statement released today, the BBC said, “We reported the story in mainland China and Hong Kong as truthfully and fairly as anywhere in the world.”
Seon Yi, a professor at the Institute for International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University, criticized the BBC for putting China’s national security at risk by promoting separatism in China over a significant period of time.
Li Haidong, a professor at the Academy of Foreign Affairs, predicted that China could take further retaliation.
He observed that China could deport the BBC reporter if the BBC did not correct its mistakes and stop distorting Hong Kong, Taiwan and the kidney problem.
He added, “If reporters can’t report on the real China, it is right to get them out.”
Professor Lee pointed out that the BBC’s China-related reports have done a great deal of damage to China-UK relations, especially the Corona 19 report.
Li Baiyang, an expert at Wuhan University, criticized the media as playing a long-term role, saying that the BBC’s distorted reports about China were part of Western anti-Chinese propaganda.
Earlier, the UK broadcasting and telecommunications regulator revoked the broadcasting license on the 4th, saying that China International Television (CGTN) is operating under the control of the Chinese Communist Party.
China has criticized this and warned that it could “take necessary measures”.
China and the UK have been struggling over the enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
China also waged a media war with the United States last year and took retaliatory measures such as expelling reporters.
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