United States condemned Chinese censorship of BBC

The United States denounced the channel’s ban in China on Thursday BBC after the release of a report on the treatment of Uyghurs from the Muslim minority in this country, urging Beijing to allow free access to the media. “We absolutely condemn this decision,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price., who called on China and “other nations with authoritarian control over the population to allow full internet access and media freedom.”

The senior official noted that In China, the information space is one of the “most controlled, oppressive and least free in the world”. He further said that it was concerning that while Beijing restricts media in its territory, it is using freedom abroad to “promote disinformation.”

China on Thursday banned the international news service of BBC, claiming that he “seriously violated” regime regulations. The Asian giant’s media agency said in a statement that the British station failed to meet “the requirement that journalism be honest and fair” and not harm its “national interests”.

For him, the agency “does not allow the BBC to continue broadcasting in China, and does not accept the renewal of its annual license”, indicated the text.

The BBC Immediately spoke out on the decision and, in her own statement, a spokeswoman said the company was “disappointed that Chinese authorities have decided to move in this direction.” “The BBC is the world’s most trusted broadcaster and reports the world fairly, impartially and without fear or favor.”he added.

In addition, the British government on Thursday accused China of censorship, since your decision to ban BBC came after the report on how that country treats the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region, where there is ample evidence that ethnic cleansing is taking place.

Dominic Raab, the British Foreign Secretary, called the decision to prevent the news channel from broadcasting in mainland China “an unacceptable restriction on press freedom”. “China has some of the toughest restrictions on media and internet freedoms in the world, and this last step will only damage China’s reputation in the eyes of the worldHe tweeted.

The UK and China have staged several episodes in recent months that reveal growing diplomatic tensions. This was the case with regard to The Chinese crackdown on the former British colony of Hong Kong, the security concerns surrounding Huawei technology, and the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region.

Last Thursday, the British Ofcom revoked the license of CGTN, the English-language sister channel of the public broadcaster CCTV, after concluding that the ruling Chinese Communist Party had ultimate editorial responsibility for the channel.

In response, the Chinese Foreign Ministry accused the British Broadcasting Corp – responsible for the BBC– of promote “fake news” in your COVID-19 report, demanding an apology and saying the station had politicized the pandemic and “refuted the theories about the cover-up by China.”

(With information from AFP and Reuters)

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