The BBC responded by saying it was disappointed with the Chinese decision, stressing that the BBC is credible and impartial. If the BBC continues to smear China with rumors about Xinjiang, the Epidemic and Hong Kong, China will not rule out more radical sanctions, such as expelling the BBC’s correspondents in the mainland. If the BBC continues to smear China on issues such as the Xinjiang epidemic and Hong Kong, China will not rule out more radical sanctions, such as expelling BBC reporters from the mainland. Independent scholar I.W. Deng analyzed to “Apple” that the BBC can only be watched in high-end hotels in the mainland, so I believe “the effect of countermeasures is not great”.
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said that the content of BBC World News’ China-related reports seriously violated the Regulations on the Administration of Radio and Television and the Measures for the Administration of the Landing of Overseas Satellite TV Channels, violated the requirement that news should be truthful and impartial, harmed China’s national interests and undermined China’s national unity, and did not meet the conditions for the landing of overseas channels in China. The State Administration of Radio and Television does not allow BBC World News to land in China and will not accept its application for landing in the new year.
In addition, a spokesman for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) said that according to the State Administration of Radio and Television not to allow BBC World News to land in China, RTHK will no longer broadcast BBC World News and BBC Current Affairs Week from 11pm tonight.
Independent scholar I.W. Deng said that the State Administration of Radio and Television’s countermeasures against the BBC are “not very effective” because BBC World News can only be watched in high-end hotels in the mainland, and it is estimated that there are not many viewers in the mainland, so the fundamental influence of the BBC on China is not very large; unless the British government further offends Beijing, it will not expel Unless the British government further offends Beijing, it will not deport the journalists in China. He further said that the incident would not have a big impact on Sino-British relations, “because (countermeasures) are expected and the Chinese government is only giving a warning.”
Serikzhan Bilash, founder of the Atajulte Volunteer Organization, which has long been concerned about Xinjiang, said that China’s ban on the BBC is a good thing because “the Chinese government is making the people of the world see more and more the evil, authoritarian and anti-human nature of the Chinese Communist Party through various means. dictatorship and anti-humanity for what it is.”
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab took to Twitter to criticize the Chinese decision as a completely unacceptable denial of media freedom, adding that the restrictions imposed by China on media and Internet freedom are among the strictest in the world, stressing that it would only damage China’s reputation in the world.
The official media Global Times then published a commentary emphasizing that “China does not accept fake news”, describing it as China’s “first fine of the Year of the Ox” to the BBC. The article criticized that the BBC’s disinformation against China is part of the public opinion war and over-the-top war of some “anti-China forces” in the West, and that keeping the BBC off the ground is only one of the countermeasures, but not the only or the last one.
Wang Sixin, a professor at the Communication University of China, told The Loop that the BBC’s landing in China operates under the framework of the Radio and Television Administration Regulations and the Administrative Measures for Landing Overseas Satellite TV Channels, and that some hotels and other places in China can receive the BBC’s signals, so “not being able to land” means that the BBC will no longer be available in mainland China. BBC World News Channel signal local decoding service, BBC programs in mainland China will not be received at all. He also said that the high-profile announcement of the decision on BBC World News at this Time of Chinese New Year is a clear indication of China’s attitude and will certainly attract more attention.
The BBC earlier quoted a woman from Xinjiang who was granted political asylum in the United States as saying that there was systematic rape in the “re-Education camps” set up by the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang, sparking concern in many countries. Ma Hui, the Chinese Embassy minister in the UK, said the reports smear China and demanded an immediate correction.
Ofcom announced earlier this month that it was revoking the broadcast license of China Global Television Network (CGTN), a subsidiary of CCTV, in the U.K., saying that after an investigation it was confirmed that CGTN’s licensee did not have editorial oversight and that it had violated U.K. law by linking CGTN to China’s Communist Party.
China’s foreign ministry then issued a statement, saying that the BBC’s January 29 broadcast of the epidemic was “fake news” and “linked the epidemic to politics” and “rehashed China’s concealment (of the epidemic). “The BBC has made serious representations to the head of the BBC’s Beijing bureau, demanding a public apology and threatening to reserve the right to take “further measures”.
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