Foreign media and Chinese flood coverage - Punch Newspapers

BBC NewsChina correspondent, Katrina Yu, said social media posts were warning the Chinese people not to engage with foreign media. “Sad sign of increasing anger and suspicion towards foreign media in #China. When we filmed in front of the Zhengzhou subway, crowds were recording us and calling the authorities. A post on Weibo warns residents, “don’t accept interviews from foreign media, don’t be used!,” Yu said. She also shared a screenshot of one such warning on Twitter.

Foreign journalists are threatened through direct intimidatory comments, trolling and abuses online and even warning to them and their families on their private phones. “There have been threats of violence and personal family-targeted abuse sent to the private phones of those working in the foreign media as part of this clearly-orchestrated campaign of harassment, especially focusing on the.

There were reports of over three million people being affected due to the floods. But the Chinese authorities hid the real count of deaths and the magnitude of the destruction due to the floods. And according to the flood-affected people, the government authorities failed to handle the crisis, which caused aggravated agony. Interestingly, the flooding occurred after the government spent over yuan 50 billion on the upgrade of the drainage system.

were reported to the police. William Nee of NGO -Chinese Human Rights Defenders said ordinary Chinese citizens attacking journalists was impossible to explain. “It is dangerous when the State fuels these xenophobic worldviews to achieve its own political ends, instead of creating an enabling environment for reporting,” Nee said.All rights reserved.

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