After the List of Foreign Missions to Chinese Media, Beijing Requires 6 US Media in China to Declare Personnel and Financial Records

Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, recently indicated that the State Department listed another 6 Chinese media organizations as foreign missions. The list included “One Fortune Global”, “Liberation Daily”, “Xinmin Evening News”, “Economic Daily”, “Beijing Weekly”, and China Social Sciences in China Press. Zhao Lijian, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China, announced the adoption of reciprocal countermeasures today (26th October). The countermeasures required six US media branches in China to declare to the Chinese party all the personnel information, financial affairs, operations, real estate information, and other written material to China within a week.

These media are the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Los Angeles Times, Minnesota Public Radio, the Bureau of National Affairs, Newsweek and Feature Story News.

Zhao said that the measures above are necessary and reciprocal as the US carried out unreasonably suppression on Chinese media agencies in the US. He added that these measures are completely legitimate and reasonable defence. He also stated that the relevant US practices specifically targeted the Chinese media and were based on Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice. They have seriously damaged the reputation and image of the Chinese media agencies, seriously affected the regular operation of the Chinese media in the US, and seriously interfered with the typical cultural exchanges between China and the US, “The hypocrisy of “freedom of the press”.

Zhao urged the US to immediately stop the political suppression as well as the unreasonable limitations to Chinese media, and emphasized that if the US insists on going its own way and add mistakes to mistakes, China will definitely take further countermeasures.

Source from: Stand News #Oct26

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#CCP has recently driven a #BBC reporter out of #China. "As my family scrambled to the airport - late and unprepared from the last-minute packing - we were watched outside our home by plainclothes police, who then followed us to the airport and tailed us through check-in," said John Sudworth. There is absolutely no concept of #PressFreedom in their minds and we should lose the hope that they would improve.
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Again, #CCP's ambition extends far beyond #HongKong, #Taiwan, it aims at the dominating global politics. #HK is an example of how fast and ugly things will crumble under #Beijing's orders, the world should not take their freedom and rights for granted but keep their eyes open to threats.
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We’d like to say a big thank you to journalists in #HongKong and #China still striving to get the news out there despite #CCP draconian rule. 32 years ago, students in #Beijing begged foreign journalists to get their stories on #TiananmenSquare out there because they couldn’t. More than 3 decades have passed, #China has not democratised under CCP’s rule. We should shed the illusion that they will change!
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Crackdown on Stand News is China's First Step in Controlling the World's Narrative, says Former #NextDigital Director

The day after Stand News was forced to shut down by Hong Kong Police, Hong Kong Democracy Council (#HKDC) held a rapid response virtual briefing on December 30, 2021, in which the speakers urged the international community to closely monitor the developing situation.

Not only is freedom of press under attack in Hong Kong, they said, the incident also signifies important future challenges, such as the possibility of China manipulating the world in the future.

The invited speakers were #ThomasKellogg, executive director of the Center for Asian Law at Georgetown University; and #MarkClifford, former independent non-executive director of Next Digital.

As a former director of Next Media, Clifford saw firsthand the government's oppression against Apple Daily, which began even before the National Security Law (#NSL) took effect on June 30, 2020. The crackdown against Stand News had been rumored to be coming for some time; even so, when it finally became reality, Clifford felt it deeply.

"What's happening at Stand News is tragic," Clifford said, "Perhaps not a complete surprise, because we have seen what happened at Apple Daily. It's extraordinary when you're on the other end of state power - unchecked state power. In a city like Hong Kong, it's hard to believe."

The arrests and forced closure of Stand News happened soon after the conclusion of the legislative elections. Hong Kong Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang had twice written to the Wall Street Journal to criticize their reporting of the Hong Kong Elections, even calling its editorials "sickening".

Clifford said that this had not been a coincidence; rather, it reflects the Chinese Communist Party's ambitions to control the world's narrative.

Source: VOA Chinese #Dec30
https://www.voachinese.com/a/experts-analysis-on-hong-kong-standard-news-forced-closure-20211230/6376727.html

Video of the HKDC Rapid Response Virtual Briefing:
https://www.facebook.com/hkdc.us/videos/958932114740331/

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