{"id":28296,"date":"2021-02-12T05:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/china-bans-bbc-world-news"},"modified":"2021-02-12T05:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:03:03","slug":"china-bans-bbc-world-news-in-retaliation-for-uk-licence-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28296","title":{"rendered":"China bans BBC World News in retaliation for UK licence blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has been critical of BBC reports on Xinjiang, while Ofcom recently revoked CGTN licence<\/p>\n<p>BBC World News has been banned from airing in China, a week after Beijing threatened to retaliate for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/chinese-news-network-cgtn-loses-uk-licence-after-ofcom-ruling\">recent revocation of the British broadcasting licence<\/a> for China\u2019s state-owned CGTN.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement published at midnight Beijing time on Friday, China\u2019s National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News\u2019s coverage of China had violated requirements that news reporting be true and impartial and undermined China\u2019s national interests and ethnic solidarity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/china-bans-bbc-world-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has been critical of BBC reports on Xinjiang, while Ofcom recently revoked CGTN licenceBBC World News has been banned from airing in China, a week after Beijing threatened to retaliate for the recent revocation of the British broadcasting licence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1762,50,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bbc","category-china","category-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28296\/revisions\/28297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}