After the Chinese Communist Party deported a number of American journalists last March and restricted the issuance of journalist visas, foreign media reporters who were denied access to Taiwan came one after another, making Taiwan a base for international media reporting on China at this stage. (Diagram)
The Chinese Communist Party has not only restricted the freedom of expression of its people at Home, but also suppressed international media coverage. According to reports, the Chinese government deported a number of American journalists last March and restricted the issuance of journalist visas to international media.
I wasn’t surprised when I heard that these American journalists had been kicked out of China, they weren’t the first ones to be kicked out,” Jojje Olsson, a Swedish journalist who spent eight years in Beijing and one year in Hong Kong, told Voice of America.
Yono, who has been based in Taiwan since 2016, believes the community of foreign journalists will continue to grow in Taiwan, or at least remain at the same level, saying many international media outlets want their Asia-based correspondents not all concentrated in China and that the risk is too great if anything happens.
An American journalist who moved to Taipei from Beijing last year pointed out that the deportation of American journalists is clearly a bilateral issue between the U.S. and China, and no longer something that news organizations can resolve on their own, so it’s up to the Biden administration (Joe Biden) to negotiate with the Chinese Communist government, and “we’ll just have to see what happens next, but we’re not seeing any signs right now that the Chinese government wants to loosen the rules and let American journalists back into China. China.
William Yang, vice president of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC), pointed out that after the Chinese Communist government deported a number of American journalists last year, many of them are now in Taiwan and have brought some different faces to the foreign media scene in Taiwan. He said that people may also be slowly discovering that reporting on China from Taiwan is not an impossible phenomenon, which he believes should be the biggest change last year, and also saw that some foreign media in Taiwan are indeed starting to think about whether there will be some longer-term plans in Taiwan.
The relocation of international journalists was not only triggered by Beijing’s expulsion of American journalists last March, but also by the Chinese Communist Party’s passage of Hong Kong’s National Security Law in June last year, which intensified its intervention in Hong Kong’s affairs and forced even The New York Times to respond by announcing in July last year that its digital news operations in Hong Kong would be relocated to Seoul, South Korea.
I think Taiwan has the potential to play such a role,” said an unnamed U.S. correspondent in Taiwan, who revealed that they had set up a bureau in Taiwan last year to cover not only China but also Taiwan from Taiwan, stressing that Taiwan’s growing importance is reflected not only in its performance against the Wuhan pneumonia Epidemic, but also in the critical nature of Taiwan’s technology industry in the context of the bilateral “decoupling” of the U.S.-China technology war.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of December last year, 34 new foreign media reporters were registered throughout 2020, including as many as 21 journalists from the U.S. media alone, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and many other journalists originally stationed in China. While some international media only plan to be in Taiwan for a short period of Time in response to the epidemic and the impact of friction between the U.S. and China, there are also media that follow the trend of planning a blueprint for a long-term presence in Taiwan.
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