Washington: United States “very concerned” for foreign correspondent abuse and intimidation which includes deadly floods in China, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Thursday.
His statement came less than 24 hours after Beijing accused the BBC broadcasting “fake news” about the flood which destroyed last week in Central Province Henan, and when British broadcasters said his journalists had experienced hostility.
“The United States is very concerned about the supervision, harassment, and increasingly loud US intimidation and other foreign journalists in the People’s Republic of China (RRC), including foreign journalists who cover the destruction and loss of life caused by the recent floods in Henan,” a repemer Talk of the Foreign Ministry of Ned’s price in a statement.
“The PRC government claims to welcome foreign media and support their work, but his actions tell different stories,” said the price.
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Zhao Lijian previous on Thursday called the BBC “fake news broadcasting company” who had “attacked and smeared China, seriously deviated from journalistic standards.” The BBC said the journalists who covered the flood had become the target of vitriol online, while other outlets were harassed on the ground in “attacks that continue to endanger foreign journalists.” The BBC reported on the flood last week in the city of Zhengzhou which killed 14 people and more than 500 commuters trapped when the city subway system flooded the hours of rushed the same as sensitivity to negative portraits of China’s mount.
Journalists from AFP were forced by residents of Zhengzhou who were hostile to remove recordings and surrounded by dozens of men while reporting the drowning traffic tunnel.
Zhao on Thursday said foreign correspondents “enjoyed an open and free reporting environment in China.” But the press freedom group said space for foreign journalists to operate was to tighten, with journalists following the streets, suffering online harassment and rejecting Visa.
In a statement on Thursday, the price of China’s urgent not to reduce the press access to the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.
“We call the RRC to act as a responsible country hoping to welcome foreign media and the world for the upcoming Beijing 2022 winter Olympics,” said His statement.