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SCMP: Censor blocks sensitive issues in BBC series

China blocked portions of the BBC’s China Week reports, according to this report in South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: Transmissions of the BBC World channel’s week-long series of mainland-themed programmes to hotels and apartment compounds for foreigners were repeatedly blocked yesterday during reports on politics and other sensitive issues. A story […]

BBC: Carrie Gracie’s Interview with Xiao Qiang

The BBC ran a lengthy interview with CDN’s Xiao Qiang: There are more Chinese citizens on line than members of the Communist party and there is a forum for political dialogue and activism beyond the control of the...

Indiantelevision: China censors BBC World, again

From Indiantelevision.com: China is back to its old censorship ploys. Yesterday it repeatedly blocked transmission of BBC World’s week-long series of China-themed programmes to hotels and apartment compounds for foreigners during political and other sensitive reports. For example, a report on restive Muslim Uighur ethnic group in China’s far west was cut off after just […]

AFP: China orders blackout of BBC show

From AFP, via The Indian Express: China has ordered a news blackout on a first ever mainland broadcast by the BBC’s flagship political debate programme Question Time, sources said on Wednesday. The show will be broadcast from Shanghai in English tomorrow with guests both critical and supportive of China’s ruling Communist Party. David Dimbleby, who […]

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