Japanese media reporters in Taiwan observed that the number of foreign media reporters in Taiwan increased by about 40% in the past year. 34 reporters from 18 foreign media were stationed in Taiwan in 2019, but it surged to 124 reporters from 71 foreign media at the end of last year. Compared to the treatment of being followed and wiretapped in China, Taiwan guarantees freedom of speech in the reporting environment, making foreign media reporters feel like they are in heaven.
In a short article published in the newspaper’s column on the 15th, Yaban Akio, the Taipei branch director of The Japanese Sankei Shimbun, pointed out that he had recently met a number of fresh-faced European and American journalists at many press conferences in Taiwan, and after talking to them, he found that most of them were foreign media reporters who had been reassigned to Taiwan from Beijing.
As for the reasons why foreign media have moved to Taiwan to set up their bases, Yabe analyzed that Taiwan held presidential elections last year, the success of epidemic prevention, and the death of former President Lee Teng-hui, and so on, there are a number of news that received international attention, but in addition, China’s Xi Jinping government tightened control over foreign media, forcing many foreign media to move their bases from Beijing or Shanghai to Taipei.
In contrast, the Taiwanese authorities have never heard of any harassment of foreign media reporters because they actively disclose information. The government has never heard of harassment of foreign journalists.
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