The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China released a report this month highlighting how China is tightening control over foreign correspondents, further deteriorating the state of press freedom.
But he said now that China wields greater influence globally, he senses that authorities are much more interested in control than ever before. Tightening control over the media has been a feature of Chinese President Xi Jinping s leadership, and from the start of China s coronavirus outbreak, it appears the government has become more intolerant of criticism.
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Does China need foreign media anymore?
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1:54China wields so much power on the global stage these days that it is less concerned about how foreign media makes the country look than in the past, says Keith Richburg, director of the University of Hong Kong s Journalism and Media Studies Centre and a former China correspondent for the Washington Post.1:54
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