“Expect them to settle in Brighton, Greater Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester Liverpool and even Bristol,’ said Evan Fowler, founder and director of a Hong Kong media platform, who has been forced to sever all ties with the business because of Hong Kong s draconian national security laws.
“There is more interest in these areas than London itself which is prohibitively expensive even by very high Hong Kong standards and where networks are dominated by the CCP. Already, those political activists who have been granted asylum here dare not step foot in Chinatown for this very reason.”
Most, he added, will probably suffer a drop in salaries after their transition to the UK, but have chosen to make the move driven by fear of Beijing’s increasingly tightening grip on Hong Kong.
“Expect them to settle in Brighton, Greater Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester Liverpool and even Bristol,’ said Evan Fowler, founder and director of a Hong Kong media platform, who has been forced to sever all ties with the business because of Hong Kong s draconian national security laws.
“There is more interest in these areas than London itself which is prohibitively expensive even by very high Hong Kong standards and where networks are dominated by the CCP. Already, those political activists who have been granted asylum here dare not step foot in Chinatown for this very reason.”
Most, he added, will probably suffer a drop in salaries after their transition to the UK, but have chosen to make the move driven by fear of Beijing’s increasingly tightening grip on Hong Kong.
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.
Report: UK Expelled 3 Chinese Spies Posing as Journalists
The UK has expelled three Chinese spies who were posing as journalists, according to a report by the Telegraph that cites an unnamed senior government official.
The report comes the day after the UK broadcast regulator Ofcom revoked the licence of a Chinese television network, which was swiftly followed by Beijing lodging an official complaint over the BBC’s reporting on the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, also known as the novel coronavirus.
According to the Telegraph report, a senior government source said that the three spies worked for three different Chinese media agencies, which were not named.
Chinese State Broadcaster CGTN Banned by UK
British officials on Feb. 4 revoked the license of Chinese television outlet CGTN to broadcast in the UK.
CGTN, or China Global Television Network, is an international English-language satellite news channel owned by the Chinese regime and directly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom made the decision (pdf) after it concluded that the license was unlawful, because CGTN’s license-holder in the UK, Star China Media Limited (SCML), was the distributor of the CGTN service in the UK, rather than “the provider” of the service.
“Our investigation showed that the license for China Global Television Network is held by an entity which has no editorial control over its programs,” a spokesperson for Ofcom said in a statement.