European Parliament Freezes China Deal Until Beijing Lifts Sanctions
The European Parliament has agreed to freeze ratification of an EU–China investment agreement until Beijing lifts sanctions on EU politicians.
The Chinese regime imposed sanctions in March on several European entities and political representatives, including five members of the European Parliament (MEP) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. Beijing adopted the measures in retaliation to EU sanctions on four Chinese officials and one entity over human rights abuses against the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.
In a resolution adopted on May 20, EU lawmakers condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the sanctions Beijing recently imposed on several European individuals and entities, including five MEPs.
Changes Proposed to Canada’s Broadcasting Act Could Take Chinese State TV Networks Off Air
The federal Conservatives are proposing changes to the Broadcasting Act that, if approved by Parliament, may see a possible removal of two Chinese state-owned broadcasters from Canada’s airwaves.
The proposed changes target any foreign media that is “subject to direction or controlled by a non-democratic foreign state, by a foreign state that is committing genocide or crimes against humanity, or that transmits, produces, or participates in the production of forced confessions.”
Conservatives Garnett Genuis, a human rights critic, and Alain Rayes, the party’s heritage critic, said their proposed revisions seek to bar authoritarian or genocidal states from pushing their propaganda to Canadians through the airwaves.
Norwegian Company Discontinues Airing CCP’s Broadcaster CGTN
Norwegian company Telia stopped airing China Global Television Network (CGTN) after receiving a complaint from victims who had experienced forced TV confessions in China, according to an April 13 tweet by Peter Dahlin, director of human rights group Safeguard Defenders.
The group urged global TV providers, including Eutelsat, not to air CGTN and take part in the grave human rights violations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
TV confessions are a tool that the CCP has applied to targeted groups including rights lawyers, activists, dissidents, believers, and ethnic minorities.
CGTN is a Mouthpiece of the CCP
French Licence Puts Pressure on China State Broadcaster: NGO Director
The French broadcasting licence that China Global Television Network (CGTN) has obtained will bring more pressure to the Chinese state broadcaster, an NGO director says.
Peter Dahlin, the director of Safeguard Defenders, a human rights NGO that has filed complaints against CGTN that led to its licence being revoked in the UK, said France’s decision to give CGTN a licence was not really a decision to begin with.
“To be included to be carried on satellites, that is an automatic process. So it’s not so much that the French TV regulator approved them, so much as it’s automatic,” Dahlin told The Epoch Times on Monday.
China Threatens Revenge After UK Bans Communist Propaganda Outlet
6 Feb 2021
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has threatened to retaliate against the United Kingdom after Britain’s broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, revoked the network licence for the state-owned propaganda outlet China Global Television Network (CGTN).
Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin accused the UK on Friday of “political oppression, double standards and hypocrisy” following the Thursday decision from Ofcom.
Mr Wang went on to warn, according to
The Telegraph, that the CCP “reserves the right to take action in response,” despite Ofcom operating as an independent body from the government a foreign concept in the Chinese state, in which all media are under the strict control of the central government.