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China bar on Reuters scribe
Beijing, Nov. 9: The Chinese government has rejected the visa application of a veteran American journalist who had been waiting eight months to begin a new reporting job in China for Thomson Reuters, the journalist said.
The reporter, Paul Mooney, said the Chinese foreign ministry told Reuters yesterday that it would not grant him a resident journalist visa but declined to provide a reason. Mooney returned to the US last year after the expiration of his previous visa, which was sponsored by The South China Morning Post.
The rejection comes at a time of rising tensions between foreign news organisations and the government, which has been using its economic clout, the issuance of visas and Internet controls to express displeasure with coverage it deems unflattering.
"China has been my career," Mooney, who has spent three decades covering Asia, the last 18 years based in Beijing, said in a phone interview today. "I never thought it was going to end this way. I'm sad and disappointed." The websites for Bloomberg News and The New York Times have been blocked in China for more than a year.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
China bar on Reuters scribe
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We have some of the Chinese posters who whenever one posts anything on atrocities in Tibet or Xinjaing, immediately with great gusto and enthusiasm write copious posts on India and Kashmir and Maoists.
They are so impervious to reality that they do not understand that India is a free country, with a robust domestic media and an unfettered international media presence to report even the most innocuous event happening in India, unlike the dungeon called China.
Many foreign correspondents have been expelled, to include the Al Jazeera, which documented in a video the infamous laogais (prisons that churn out products to bolster China's economy at cut throat rates).
And now, they have expelled so to say the Reuters correspondent, who has had a three decade stint in China, just because he did not write flattering reports on China.
The poor things in the CCP do not understand that the media in the free world does not latter the Govts. Instead, they act as watchdogs that the Govt does things right.
But try telling it to these Double Think folks of China.
They also ban foreign TV channels and black them out.
What a way to go!
Beijing, Nov. 9: The Chinese government has rejected the visa application of a veteran American journalist who had been waiting eight months to begin a new reporting job in China for Thomson Reuters, the journalist said.
The reporter, Paul Mooney, said the Chinese foreign ministry told Reuters yesterday that it would not grant him a resident journalist visa but declined to provide a reason. Mooney returned to the US last year after the expiration of his previous visa, which was sponsored by The South China Morning Post.
The rejection comes at a time of rising tensions between foreign news organisations and the government, which has been using its economic clout, the issuance of visas and Internet controls to express displeasure with coverage it deems unflattering.
"China has been my career," Mooney, who has spent three decades covering Asia, the last 18 years based in Beijing, said in a phone interview today. "I never thought it was going to end this way. I'm sad and disappointed." The websites for Bloomberg News and The New York Times have been blocked in China for more than a year.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
China bar on Reuters scribe
*****************************************************************
We have some of the Chinese posters who whenever one posts anything on atrocities in Tibet or Xinjaing, immediately with great gusto and enthusiasm write copious posts on India and Kashmir and Maoists.
They are so impervious to reality that they do not understand that India is a free country, with a robust domestic media and an unfettered international media presence to report even the most innocuous event happening in India, unlike the dungeon called China.
Many foreign correspondents have been expelled, to include the Al Jazeera, which documented in a video the infamous laogais (prisons that churn out products to bolster China's economy at cut throat rates).
And now, they have expelled so to say the Reuters correspondent, who has had a three decade stint in China, just because he did not write flattering reports on China.
The poor things in the CCP do not understand that the media in the free world does not latter the Govts. Instead, they act as watchdogs that the Govt does things right.
But try telling it to these Double Think folks of China.
They also ban foreign TV channels and black them out.
What a way to go!