Chinese authorities have detained a Bloomberg News journalist on suspicion of threatening national security

Chinese authorities detained Haze Fan, a staffer in the Bloomberg News office in Beijing, on suspicion of endangering national security. Fan, who is a Chinese citizen, was last seen being taken away from her apartment in Beijing by plainclothes security officials after speaking with one of her editors

Fan, who covers Chinese business-news topics for Bloomberg, started working for the publication in 2017. She previously worked for Al Jazeera, CBS News, CNBC, and Thomson Reuters.

The US and China have been imposing sanctions on each other's journalists. The US has labeled Chinese media organizations as government entities.

Source: Business Insider #Dec11

https://www.businessinsider.com/haze-fan-detained-china-bloomberg-news-beijing-national-security-2020-12

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