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Washington Post ‘forced out’ of China as Sino-US tensions escalate

蘋果日報 2020/09/19 13:49


The Washington Post has no foreign correspondent reporting on China for the first time in four decades as Bureau chief Anna Fifield returned to New Zealand. China is still not granting visa for another Post correspondent to come to Beijing.
“Like many Western news organizations, the Post has been caught in the middle of tensions between two superpowers that is already limiting the flow of independent news and information from the country at a critical time,” the paper said.
On Tuesday, Fifield tweeted that it would be the last time she got to close up the Beijing bureau for the night. “It’s particularly depressing, especially at this time, that American readers have fewer insights into Chinese lives,” she said.
The Post’s China correspondent Gerry Shih was expelled in March, and is now acting bureau chief based out of Taiwan. His replacement, Eva Dou, is still waiting for her visa to be approved. For the time being, the Post is relying on two researchers to keep the Beijing office going – China doesn’t allow its citizens to work as journalists for foreign media organizations.
The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News have also reportedly been struggling to secure work visas for their journalists.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Bill Birtles and the Australian Financial Review’s Michael Smith were the nation’s two remaining correspondents in mainland China until they left the country on Sept. 7 after being interrogated by law enforcement officers.
Amid growing fears that Beijing will not maintain civil liberties and press freedom in Hong Kong, the New York Times announced in July that it would move its digital news operation to Seoul.
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