{"id":83101,"date":"2021-03-10T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=295297"},"modified":"2021-03-10T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:47:54","slug":"beijing-bristles-at-uk-envoy-over-media-freedom-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2021\/03\/10\/beijing-bristles-at-uk-envoy-over-media-freedom-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing bristles at UK envoy over media freedom article"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China launched a scathing new attack Wednesday on Britain\u2019s ambassador in Beijing over an article she wrote on media freedom, saying the piece exposed \u201cprejudice\u201d and \u201cdouble standards.\u201d The foreign ministry\u2019s remarks came a day after it summoned Caroline Wilson over an article \u2014 posted on Chinese social media platform WeChat last week \u2014 in which she said foreign media in the country were being misrepresented as \u201canti-China.\u201d Wilson raised examples of how critical coverage, including by Chinese media during the start of the coronavirus pandemic, can also be constructive. Facing an onslaught of official anger, Wilson doubled down on her article, saying in a tweet: \u201cNo doubt the outgoing Chinese Ambassador to the UK stands by the 170+ pieces he was free to place in mainstream British media.\u201d But Beijing reopened the row on Wednesday with foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian saying Wilson\u2019s essay \u201chas confused logic\u2026 and makes no mention of UK media\u2019s fake news and untrue reports concerning China\u201d. Chinese authorities have in recent days taken action against British broadcaster the BBC, with the Chinese regulator pulling BBC World News from air last month. That followed a BBC report with harrowing accounts of torture and sexual violence against Uighur women in China\u2019s western region of Xinjiang \u2014 allegations that Beijing denies. The ban was widely seen as retaliation for British regulator Ofcom revoking the licence of China\u2019s English-language news network CGTN. CGTN was also fined on Monday over a complaint brought by British national Peter Humphrey, who says he was forced to make a criminal confession aired by the network. Wilson\u2019s article aims \u201cto interfere in China\u2019s internal affairs, and reflects her long-held double standards and deep-rooted ideological prejudice,\u201d Zhao added. Relations between Britain and China are pinched by a range of issues from the treatment of the Uighur minority, to the railroading of Hong Kong\u2019s freedoms and the rights of each other\u2019s broadcasters to air and operate. \u2013 AFP<\/p>\n

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