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China Orders BBC Off the Air in Its Territory
>Hong Kong public radio network also pulls the plug in moves that follow U.K. regulator’s ban of state-run Chinese news channel
The action comes days after Beijing’s primary international news channel lost its license in the U.K.
The tit-for-tat move shows how media organizations are getting increasingly embroiled in China’s deteriorating relations with the West. Both London and Beijing have criticized each other’s action as hurting media freedom, depicting the news organizations involved as extensions of each government’s agenda.
The announcement from China’s National Radio and Television Administration at just past midnight Friday local time, at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday, appeared mostly symbolic for the mainland since international broadcasters such as the BBC already have limited reach there. The programming typically can only be seen in upmarket hotels and compounds where foreigners live and even on those feeds the screens frequently go black when news relates to China.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-orders-bbc-off-the-air-in-its-territory-11613078980?mod=e2tw
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>A Chinese regulator ordered BBC off the airwaves in Chinese territory for news reports it called unfair. The move shows media organizations becoming increasingly embroiled in China’s deteriorating relations with the West.