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Two years after The new world media order according to China, Reporters without borders (RSF) has published The Great Leap Back of Journalism, a report that reveals the extent of the regime's repression campaign against the right to information.
It is a condemnatory document of 82 pages, published one year before the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, scheduled for the end of 2022. Report shows Beijing's violations of its international commitments on freedom of opinion and expression are accelerating. The great leap backwards of journalism in China, Posted 7 December 2021 by RSF, reveals the unprecedented campaign of repression that the Chinese regime has carried out against journalism and the right to information around the world in recent years.
Specifically, The report examines the regime's tools of repression against journalists and measures, in particular, the deterioration of press freedom in Hong Kong, once a model of press freedom, which now records a growing number of journalists detained in the name of national security.
The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China It also details Beijing's strategy to control access to information inside and outside its borders., before making appeals to the authorities, Chinese governments and institutions and present recommendations for journalists and the media.
“If China continues in this direction, Chinese citizens risk losing hope that press freedom will ever be established in their country, and the Beijing regime can impose its anti-model, even in other countries”, RSF Secretary General warns, Christophe Deloire, that has asked democracies to “identify all appropriate strategies to dissuade the Beijing regime from continuing its repressive policies and support all Chinese citizens who love their country and want to defend their right to information”.
The great leap back in journalism
10 key data
Journalists are forced to become party spokespersons
To obtain and renew your press cards, journalists will soon have to undergo an annual training course 90 hours focused in part on “Xi Jinping Thought”, and they are already forced to download the Study Xi spy application, Strengthen the Country.
China remains the world's largest prison for journalists
Currently, the Chinese regime retains at least 127 journalists. The mere fact of investigating a taboo topic or publishing censored information can mean years in unhealthy prisons., where abuse can lead to death.
Blacklist of foreign correspondents
The system of intimidation of correspondents, based on visa surveillance and blackmail, forced 18 of them to leave the country in 2020. Gui minhai, Yang Hengjun and Cheng Lei, three foreign reporters of Chinese origin, They are detained for “espionage”.
The Covid-19 pandemic is an ideal pretext to intensify repression
At least 10 Journalists and online commentators were detained in 2020 simply for informing his fellow citizens about the real situation of the Covid-19 epidemic in Wuhan. Among them, Zhang Zhan and Fang Bin remain detained today.
Media blockade in Xinjiang
From 2016, The Beijing regime carries out violent repression against the Uyghurs in the name of the “fight against terrorism”. 71 journalists of this ethnic group are behind bars, more than half of journalists imprisoned in China.
The proliferation of red lines
Very few topics are now free from censorship, from traditionally sensitive issues such as Tibet, Taiwan and corruption, even natural disasters, the #MeToo movement and praise for healthcare workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Hong Kong, journalists face specter of National Security Law
The National Security Law, imposed by China in 2020, is deliberately imprecise and a mixed bag, and has served as a pretext for the repression of at least twelve journalists and press freedom activists, among them the founder of Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai. All face life in prison.
Carrie Lam, puppet of the Beijing regime
To please the Chinese regime, the chief executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, Apple Daily closed, the largest opposition media outlet in the territory, and orchestrated a censorship campaign by public broadcasting group RTHK (Hong Kong Radio Television).
CGTN continues to transmit the regime's propaganda to the world
in 2021, Chinese state broadcaster CGTN lost its UK license after airing multiple forced confessions, among them those of editor Gui Minhai and former journalist Peter Humphrey, but it continues to broadcast its propaganda throughout the world.
Embassies, the relief of the regime against freedom of information
Chinese diplomatic missions are a source of pressure on freedom of information in democracies. The Chinese ambassador in Paris, Lu Shaye, He is an infamous anti-media.
In a previous report, Posted in 2019 and titled The new world media order according to China, RSF showed how Beijing is trying by all means to end the counter-power function of journalism and turn it into a tool at the service of state propaganda.
The People's Republic of China stagnates in position 177 of 180 in the of RSF published in 2021, just two places above North Korea. Hong Kong, once a bastion of press freedom, has dropped drastically since its transfer to China, going from 18º position when the index was created in 2002 al 80º in 2021.
Translations of the report into other languages will be available on 24 of January of 2022, ten days before the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in China (simplified and traditional chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, español, Portuguese and German).
