Wall Street Journal Reporter Forced to Leave China
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Re: Wall Street Journal Reporter Forced to Leave China
#2He'd have been charged with "inciting subversion of state power" if he holds Chinese passport.
The WSJ Chinese weibo account was banned last month, even though it basically only posts good news about China and bad news about America.
Also:
>The Chinese central government rejected Lam’s proposal to withdraw the extradition bill and ordered her not to yield to any of the protesters’ other demands at that time,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-china-e...
Re: Wall Street Journal Reporter Forced to Leave China
#3Somewhat related (topically, not necessarily causally), I've seen a number of tweets about journalists being hassled entering the US. So far none have actually been barred as far as I'm aware, but it seems the "fake news media" rhetoric from the top has been seared into (some of) the rank-and-file.
One example: https://mobile.twitter.com/jamescdyer/status/116464700893166...
Re: Wall Street Journal Reporter Forced to Leave China
#4He'd have been charged with "inciting subversion of state power" if he holds Chinese passport. The WSJ Chinese weibo account was banned last month, even though it basically only posts good news about China and bad news about America. Also: >The Chinese central government rejected Lam’s proposal to withdraw the extradition bill and ordered her not to yield to any of the protesters’ other demands at that time, https://…
Is Reuters a credible news source? I have seen many news from that site but don't have a good way to verify their reports...
Re: Wall Street Journal Reporter Forced to Leave China
#5It is an interesting point of comparison that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, considers meanstream news sources like the New York Times to be extremely malicious against him and unfair to him in their coverage.
The amount of censorship he applies to the New York Times is exactly 0.