“Trade-offs” Of China Entry
The floodgates are open. The ground rules have softened. But not all the correspondents coming to China ahead of the Olympics can take full advantage. In October last year, the Foreign Desk editor of...
View ArticleChina Faces WTO Case Over Financial News
From Reuters via Khaleej Times : The European Union and the United States have decided to file a joint complaint against China at the World Trade Organisation over how Beijing regulates foreign...
View ArticleChina Responds to US, EU on News Dispute
From AP: China said Tuesday it will follow WTO rules in settling disputes with the United States and Europe over restraints on access to its booming market for financial information services, but it...
View ArticleChina’s Relaxed Reporting Rules Set to Expire
The Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that the new reporting rules for foreign journalists, which were implemented with varying degrees of consistency, will expire now that the Games are over. Yet it...
View ArticleIn China, Reporters Without Orders
The Asia Times reports on the extension of liberalized regulations covering the foreign media in China: When the new regulation was introduced two years ago, reform-minded officials hoped it would be...
View ArticleChina Agrees to Loosen Controls on News Providers
Following complaints filed to the WTO by the U.S., E.U. and Canada, China has canceled regulations imposed in 2006 that required foreign financial news services to go through Xinhua to distribute news...
View ArticleChina Announces Regulations for Financial Information in Settlement with US,...
Following a complaint brought at the WTO, China has changed regulations governing foreign financial information providers. From the Los Angeles Times: The rules eliminate a requirement that foreign...
View ArticleAl Jazeera Expulsion Still Unexplained
A Foreign Ministry spokesman’s non-answers about the expulsion of Al Jazeera English correspondent Melissa Chan this week have prompted widespread mockery. When the official transcript of the press...
View ArticleMelissa Chan: “Goodbye to China”
From Melissa Chan at Al Jazeera English: Earlier this week, I left China after five years as an Al Jazeera English correspondent following the decision by the government to revoke my press credentials....
View ArticleJournalist Expelled from China Reflects
At The Los Angeles Times, Rosanna Xia interviews Melissa Chan, former Beijing correspondent for Al Jazeera English, who last week became the first accredited journalist since 1998 to be expelled from...
View ArticleThe Chinese Media Reciprocity Act
In September of last year, California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R) introduced H.R. 2899 – the Chinese Media Reciprocity Act of 2011, now being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives. If the...
View ArticleForeign Reporters Face Shifting Power Dynamics
After Bloomberg and New York Times reporters received their press credentials, the first step in getting visas, fears that two major foreign publications would have to close operations in China have...
View ArticleForeign Media Face New Rules; State Media Echo Xi
On February 15, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology publicized new regulations that as of March...
View ArticleHow Xi Jinping is Bringing China’s Media to Heel
Last month saw signs that the steady tightening of media control under Xi Jinping’s rule will continue. On February 15, China’s top media regulator issued new rules consolidating the existing...
View Article“Trade-offs” Of China Entry
The floodgates are open. The ground rules have softened. But not all the correspondents coming to China ahead of the Olympics can take full advantage. In October last year, the Foreign Desk editor of...
View ArticleChina Faces WTO Case Over Financial News
From Reuters via Khaleej Times : The European Union and the United States have decided to file a joint complaint against China at the World Trade Organisation over how Beijing regulates foreign...
View ArticleChina Responds to US, EU on News Dispute
From AP: China said Tuesday it will follow WTO rules in settling disputes with the United States and Europe over restraints on access to its booming market for financial information services, but it...
View ArticleChina’s Relaxed Reporting Rules Set to Expire
The Foreign Ministry has acknowledged that the new reporting rules for foreign journalists, which were implemented with varying degrees of consistency, will expire now that the Games are over. Yet it...
View ArticleIn China, Reporters Without Orders
The Asia Times reports on the extension of liberalized regulations covering the foreign media in China: When the new regulation was introduced two years ago, reform-minded officials hoped it would be...
View ArticleChina Agrees to Loosen Controls on News Providers
Following complaints filed to the WTO by the U.S., E.U. and Canada, China has canceled regulations imposed in 2006 that required foreign financial news services to go through Xinhua to distribute news...
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