Posted on 02/13/2021 8:41:17 AM PST by Navy Patriot
The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain’s pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.
The EU said in a statement that Beijing’s move further restricted “freedom of expression and access to information inside its borders," and violated both the Chinese constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The statement also said that Hong Kong’s announcement that its public broadcaster would also stop carrying BBC broadcasts added to the “erosion of the rights and freedoms that is ongoing" in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory since the imposition last year of a sweeping new national security law.
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Dear EU...China is not your friend. Duh...
Where is the fake Byedone regime on this matter? Oh yeah. We know.
FWIW, I think the only reason the ChiComs are banning the Beebe is to make the BBC look more attractive to Brits who are steamed about their boob tube tax.
This ChiCom language BBC was funded by ChiComs in the first place.
That’s the reason it wasn’t banned in China in the first place.
It is cover and propaganda for ChiCom totalitarians that the BBC is paid to do.
BBC may have gone beyond the scope if work.
EU is saying - get back to the deliverables, BBC.
That’s funny! China will do as they please. It’s only going to get worse, now that the US has become a vassal state of China.
Dear EU, go bugger yourself.
They must have criticized the Communist Party, where the U.S. media refuses to do so.
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