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China Bans the BBC
“It’s troubling that as the PRC restricts outlets and platforms from operating freely in China, Beijing’s leaders use free and open media environments overseas to promote misinformation,” said the U.S. State Department.
The Chinese Communist Party’s broadening regulator has banned the BBC World Service from airing in China. The move comes a week after Britain’s communication regulator stripped the state-run China global television network CGTN of its broadcasting license in the U.K.
According to a report from Chinese state news agency Xinhua, China’s National Radio and Television Administration, BBC World News, “was found to have seriously violated regulations on radio and television management and on overseas satellite television channel management in its China-related reports which went against the requirements that news reporting must be true and impartial, and undermined China’s national interests and ethnic solidarity.”
According to the Chinese regulator, BBC reporting had, “violated the requirement that news be truthful and fair, and has harmed Chinese national interests and damaged Chinese ethnic unity.” The regulator said that the department will not consider an annual licensing application that would allow BBC World News to broadcast into China.
“As the channel fails to meet the requirements to broadcast in China as an…