UK Revokes a China's Media CGTN Broadcasting license and Beijing Rebuts BBC as "Fake News”
China Global Television Network (CGTN), a subsidiary of China’s state-owned China Central Television, has been repeatedly questioned as biased. The Office of Communications (Ofcom) in the UK announced to revoke the local broadcasting license of CGTN today. On the other hand, the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry criticized a BBC report from last month as fake news linking politics to the pandemic and asked for apologies.
Ofcom confirmed on Thursday after the investigation that Star China Media owned the broadcasting license of CGTN. However, this company has no right to control the editorial content of this station. Therefore, it does not meet the legal requirements for the license.
CGTN once requested to transfer the broadcasting license to a company called China Global Television Network Corporation. However, as the “important information” for the application is missing and the company are ultimately controlled by CCP, Ofcom refused the request for license transfer. Ofcom emphasized that they have already given enough chance to CGTN, but they still failed to comply with the law, so they decided to revoke its license.
Source: Stand News #Feb04
https://bit.ly/2OS5wIf
#China #Beijing #CGTN #CCTV #England #Britain #UK #BroadcastingLicense #BBC #FakeNews #CCP #Ofcom #License
China Global Television Network (CGTN), a subsidiary of China’s state-owned China Central Television, has been repeatedly questioned as biased. The Office of Communications (Ofcom) in the UK announced to revoke the local broadcasting license of CGTN today. On the other hand, the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry criticized a BBC report from last month as fake news linking politics to the pandemic and asked for apologies.
Ofcom confirmed on Thursday after the investigation that Star China Media owned the broadcasting license of CGTN. However, this company has no right to control the editorial content of this station. Therefore, it does not meet the legal requirements for the license.
CGTN once requested to transfer the broadcasting license to a company called China Global Television Network Corporation. However, as the “important information” for the application is missing and the company are ultimately controlled by CCP, Ofcom refused the request for license transfer. Ofcom emphasized that they have already given enough chance to CGTN, but they still failed to comply with the law, so they decided to revoke its license.
Source: Stand News #Feb04
https://bit.ly/2OS5wIf
#China #Beijing #CGTN #CCTV #England #Britain #UK #BroadcastingLicense #BBC #FakeNews #CCP #Ofcom #License
Dominic Raab Urge Beijing to Allow the UN to Investigate Human Rights Issue in Xinjiang
Dominic Raab, the British Foreign Secretary, once again in a week criticised Beijing for harming human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. He also urged China to allow the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate the violation of the current Uyghurs human rights situation in Xinjiang.
Raab mentioned the cooperation stance between the UK and Xinjiang and expressed his opposing stance against Britain cooperating with Chinese enterprises, which exploited Xinjiang, at a BBC video interview with a political commentator Andrew Marr in Jan 17 morning local time. He mentioned that companies should not import product manufactured by forced labour in Xinjiang, ensuring that no organisation and institute from Britain would encourage violations of human rights in the area under the related policy. Raab expounded the British stance on the Xinjiang human rights issues the third time in a week, after briefing at the House of Commons last week and his conversation with Wang Yi.
Raab continued to express his concern over the issues in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. “We have joined 38 countries to criticise and to condemn the human rights violation in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. We will take actions to restrict British enterprises to profit from their supply chains in these horrifying detention camps. China accuses the west and Britain of having fabricated lies on the issues. If China wants to dispute the accusation and report, the simplest way is to allow United Nation Human Rights Commissioners to visit and investigate these places.”
#DominicRaab #Britain #XinJiang #Uyghur #HumanRights #UN #HongKong #DetentionCamps #BBC #AndrewMarr
Sources: StandNews #Jan17
https://bit.ly/3qA5eCO
Dominic Raab, the British Foreign Secretary, once again in a week criticised Beijing for harming human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. He also urged China to allow the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate the violation of the current Uyghurs human rights situation in Xinjiang.
Raab mentioned the cooperation stance between the UK and Xinjiang and expressed his opposing stance against Britain cooperating with Chinese enterprises, which exploited Xinjiang, at a BBC video interview with a political commentator Andrew Marr in Jan 17 morning local time. He mentioned that companies should not import product manufactured by forced labour in Xinjiang, ensuring that no organisation and institute from Britain would encourage violations of human rights in the area under the related policy. Raab expounded the British stance on the Xinjiang human rights issues the third time in a week, after briefing at the House of Commons last week and his conversation with Wang Yi.
Raab continued to express his concern over the issues in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. “We have joined 38 countries to criticise and to condemn the human rights violation in Xinjiang and Hong Kong. We will take actions to restrict British enterprises to profit from their supply chains in these horrifying detention camps. China accuses the west and Britain of having fabricated lies on the issues. If China wants to dispute the accusation and report, the simplest way is to allow United Nation Human Rights Commissioners to visit and investigate these places.”
#DominicRaab #Britain #XinJiang #Uyghur #HumanRights #UN #HongKong #DetentionCamps #BBC #AndrewMarr
Sources: StandNews #Jan17
https://bit.ly/3qA5eCO
China's Communist party ran campaign to discredit BBC, thinktank finds
China’s Communist party (CCP) orchestrated an international campaign to undermine the BBC and discredit its reporting during the first two months of the year, using western social media networks. Posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which platforms are blocked in mainland China, were uploaded by diplomatic and state media accounts, and pro-Beijing influencers, and then amplified by troll networks.
Three main approaches were repeatedly deployed to try to undermine critical reporting from the UK’s public broadcaster.
The posts claimed that the BBC was biased and spreads disinformation, alleged that domestic audiences in the UK don’t trust its reporting, and said that its coverage of China is instigated by spy agencies or foreigners hostile to Beijing.
Source: The guardian #Mar04
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/04/chinas-communist-party-ran-campaign-to-discredit-bbc-thinktank-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#CCP #China #BBC
China’s Communist party (CCP) orchestrated an international campaign to undermine the BBC and discredit its reporting during the first two months of the year, using western social media networks. Posts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube which platforms are blocked in mainland China, were uploaded by diplomatic and state media accounts, and pro-Beijing influencers, and then amplified by troll networks.
Three main approaches were repeatedly deployed to try to undermine critical reporting from the UK’s public broadcaster.
The posts claimed that the BBC was biased and spreads disinformation, alleged that domestic audiences in the UK don’t trust its reporting, and said that its coverage of China is instigated by spy agencies or foreigners hostile to Beijing.
Source: The guardian #Mar04
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/04/chinas-communist-party-ran-campaign-to-discredit-bbc-thinktank-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#CCP #China #BBC
China Takes Aim at ‘Illegal’ Club for Foreign Correspondents
China slammed a Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) as an “illegal organization,” broadening its attack on journalists whose reports differ from the government’s official line. While Beijing has long described the FCCC as illegal, the rebuke as a whole was longer and more detailed than in the past.
The BBC’s China correspondent John Sudworth recently left Beijing for Taipei. That followed criticism from the government over the broadcaster’s recent coverage. The BBC News Press Team said in a statement that his reporting “exposed truths the Chinese authorities did not want the world to know.”
The Communist Party-backed Global Times characterized Sudworth’s work as biased.
Source: Bloomberg #Apr01
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-01/china-takes-aim-at-illegal-club-for-foreign-correspondents
#China #FCCC #ForeignMediaThreatChina #China #BBC
China slammed a Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) as an “illegal organization,” broadening its attack on journalists whose reports differ from the government’s official line. While Beijing has long described the FCCC as illegal, the rebuke as a whole was longer and more detailed than in the past.
The BBC’s China correspondent John Sudworth recently left Beijing for Taipei. That followed criticism from the government over the broadcaster’s recent coverage. The BBC News Press Team said in a statement that his reporting “exposed truths the Chinese authorities did not want the world to know.”
The Communist Party-backed Global Times characterized Sudworth’s work as biased.
Source: Bloomberg #Apr01
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-01/china-takes-aim-at-illegal-club-for-foreign-correspondents
#China #FCCC #ForeignMediaThreatChina #China #BBC
BBC: Xinjiang Police test emotion-detecting AI on Uyghurs
It was revealed earlier that Alibaba’s facial recognition technology can be used to identify Uyghurs. Afterwards, Alibaba announced that they have eliminated any ethnic tag in their products. However, a Chinese software engineer showed to BBC's “Panorama” programme that, Xinjiang police are testing emotion-detecting AI. Some human rights activists described the incident as shocking.
AI to analyses facial expression and skin pores of the tied suspect
The software engineer who did not disclose his company showed 5 photographs to BBC, saying that China is testing emotional recognition system. He claims that his job is to install such systems in police stations in Xinjiang. “The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories”, he said, “We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It is similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology."
Source : Stand News #May27
https://bit.ly/3zgHfyi
#Alibaba #EmotionRecognition #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Software #BBC #HumanRights #Panorama #China
It was revealed earlier that Alibaba’s facial recognition technology can be used to identify Uyghurs. Afterwards, Alibaba announced that they have eliminated any ethnic tag in their products. However, a Chinese software engineer showed to BBC's “Panorama” programme that, Xinjiang police are testing emotion-detecting AI. Some human rights activists described the incident as shocking.
AI to analyses facial expression and skin pores of the tied suspect
The software engineer who did not disclose his company showed 5 photographs to BBC, saying that China is testing emotional recognition system. He claims that his job is to install such systems in police stations in Xinjiang. “The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories”, he said, “We placed the emotion detection camera 3m from the subject. It is similar to a lie detector but far more advanced technology."
Source : Stand News #May27
https://bit.ly/3zgHfyi
#Alibaba #EmotionRecognition #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #Software #BBC #HumanRights #Panorama #China
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Chinese embassy in UK 'firmly opposes' BBC's reporting on 'Chinese Taipei' Olympic team -statement
The Chinese embassy in the UK "firmly opposes" the BBC's reporting on the participation of Taiwan's "Chinese Taipei" team in the Olympics, it said in a statement on Monday.
"There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China," the embassy said.
Source: Reuters #Aug05
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-embassy-uk-firmly-opposes-bbcs-reporting-chinese-taipei-olympic-team-2021-08-03/
#China #Taiwan #BBC #Olympics
The Chinese embassy in the UK "firmly opposes" the BBC's reporting on the participation of Taiwan's "Chinese Taipei" team in the Olympics, it said in a statement on Monday.
"There is only one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China," the embassy said.
Source: Reuters #Aug05
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-embassy-uk-firmly-opposes-bbcs-reporting-chinese-taipei-olympic-team-2021-08-03/
#China #Taiwan #BBC #Olympics
China Aims Its Propaganda Firehose at the BBC
Chinese trolls and fake news websites have been attacking the BBC in a bid to undermine its credibility, new research published today claims. The online influence operation, which is being linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is seemingly a response to the BBC’s reporting on human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and state-backed misinformation campaigns.
The new research from analysts at cybersecurity company Recorded Future claims that the “likely state-sponsored” operation used hundreds of websites and social media accounts to attack the BBC’s reporting. In particular the network has accused the BBC of adding a “filter” to its reports from China to make the country look dull and lifeless.
Source: Wired #Aug19
#China #Propaganda #CCP #BBC #Uyghur
https://t.co/gNokoAtLPb
Chinese trolls and fake news websites have been attacking the BBC in a bid to undermine its credibility, new research published today claims. The online influence operation, which is being linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is seemingly a response to the BBC’s reporting on human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and state-backed misinformation campaigns.
The new research from analysts at cybersecurity company Recorded Future claims that the “likely state-sponsored” operation used hundreds of websites and social media accounts to attack the BBC’s reporting. In particular the network has accused the BBC of adding a “filter” to its reports from China to make the country look dull and lifeless.
Source: Wired #Aug19
#China #Propaganda #CCP #BBC #Uyghur
https://t.co/gNokoAtLPb
Foreign journalists harassed covering China floods, correspondents' club says
Journalists from several media outlets covering recent floods in China were harassed online and by local residents, with staff from the BBC and Los Angeles Times receiving death threats, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC).
In a statement on Tuesday, the FCCC criticised what it said was growing hostility to foreign media, some of which it said was fanned by official bodies.
"There must be immediate action by the Chinese government to stop these attacks which continue to endanger foreign journalists," the BBC said in a statement on Twitter.
Source: Reuters #Jul27
https://reut.rs/3zEkQu2
#China #BBC #LosAngelesTimes #FCCC #journalist
Journalists from several media outlets covering recent floods in China were harassed online and by local residents, with staff from the BBC and Los Angeles Times receiving death threats, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC).
In a statement on Tuesday, the FCCC criticised what it said was growing hostility to foreign media, some of which it said was fanned by official bodies.
"There must be immediate action by the Chinese government to stop these attacks which continue to endanger foreign journalists," the BBC said in a statement on Twitter.
Source: Reuters #Jul27
https://reut.rs/3zEkQu2
#China #BBC #LosAngelesTimes #FCCC #journalist
The Head of a Belarus Exile Group Hanged in a Park. Police Starts off by Murder Investigation
The BBC reported that the Belarus Exile Group Head Vitaly Shishov, who has lost recently, was found being hanged in a park in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on August 3. The place was close to his house in Ukraine. The police force has already started an investigation in accordance with murder, not ruling the chance of homicide.
Vitaly Shishov is the Head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, an exile group helping people in Belarus to flee to Ukraine. The organisation headquarter is in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, mainly helping Belarusians who fleed due to violent oppression to find accommodations, jobs and legal suggestions.
#Belarus #Ukraine #Kyiv #VitalyShishov #BelarusianHouseinUkraine #BBC
Source: Stand News #Aug03
https://bit.ly/3ChJ1jw
The BBC reported that the Belarus Exile Group Head Vitaly Shishov, who has lost recently, was found being hanged in a park in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on August 3. The place was close to his house in Ukraine. The police force has already started an investigation in accordance with murder, not ruling the chance of homicide.
Vitaly Shishov is the Head of the Belarusian House in Ukraine, an exile group helping people in Belarus to flee to Ukraine. The organisation headquarter is in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, mainly helping Belarusians who fleed due to violent oppression to find accommodations, jobs and legal suggestions.
#Belarus #Ukraine #Kyiv #VitalyShishov #BelarusianHouseinUkraine #BBC
Source: Stand News #Aug03
https://bit.ly/3ChJ1jw
#Racism
Chinese man held over #racist videos and claims his aims to spread Chinese culture
A Chinese filmmaker wanted by Malawi as part of an investigation into allegations of racism and child exploitation has been arrested.
#LuKe was a #Malawi resident when he was exposed by #BBC #AfricaEye, which reported he had used local children to film personalised greetings videos, some of which included racist content.
These videos can be bought for up to $70 (£55) on Chinese social media and internet platforms.
Lu Ke denied making derogatory videos.
He said he made his videos in order to spread Chinese culture to the local community.
In one of the videos seen by the BBC, a group of young children is made to chant - in Chinese - "I'm a black monster. My IQ is low", clearly unaware of what they are saying.//
Read the full article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61862619
Source: BBC #Jun21
#ChineseInternet #SocialMedia #Weibo #Weixin #Africa #ChineseinAfrica
Chinese man held over #racist videos and claims his aims to spread Chinese culture
A Chinese filmmaker wanted by Malawi as part of an investigation into allegations of racism and child exploitation has been arrested.
#LuKe was a #Malawi resident when he was exposed by #BBC #AfricaEye, which reported he had used local children to film personalised greetings videos, some of which included racist content.
These videos can be bought for up to $70 (£55) on Chinese social media and internet platforms.
Lu Ke denied making derogatory videos.
He said he made his videos in order to spread Chinese culture to the local community.
In one of the videos seen by the BBC, a group of young children is made to chant - in Chinese - "I'm a black monster. My IQ is low", clearly unaware of what they are saying.//
Read the full article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61862619
Source: BBC #Jun21
#ChineseInternet #SocialMedia #Weibo #Weixin #Africa #ChineseinAfrica
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BBC Africa Eye expose: Chinese man held over racist videos
He was filmed using Malawian children to make videos, some of which included racist content.