{"id":30433,"date":"2021-03-31T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/bbc-journalist-john-sudworth-leaves-china-amid-criticism-of-networks-coverage"},"modified":"2021-03-31T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:28:11","slug":"bbc-journalist-leaves-china-after-beijing-criticises-uighurs-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30433","title":{"rendered":"BBC journalist leaves China after Beijing criticises Uighurs coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Sudworth\u2019s relocation to Taiwan comes after \u2018months of personal attacks\u2019 over reporting of alleged abuses of minorities<\/p>\n<p>A senior BBC journalist has left Beijing for Taiwan at short notice after nine years reporting from China, amid concerns for his safety and that of his family.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest loss to Beijing\u2019s fast-shrinking foreign press corps, after last year saw at least 18 journalists expelled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/31\/australian-citizen-detained-in-china-amid-tensions-between-canberra-and-beijing\">one detained<\/a> and two others flee home to Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/sep\/26\/australian-journalists-forced-to-flee-china-warn-political-situation-in-country-is-worst-since-1970s\">after an intense diplomatic standoff.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/31\/bbc-journalist-john-sudworth-leaves-china-amid-criticism-of-networks-coverage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sudworth\u2019s relocation to Taiwan comes after \u2018months of personal attacks\u2019 over reporting of alleged abuses of minoritiesA senior BBC journalist has left Beijing for Taiwan at short notice after nine years reporting from China, amid concerns for his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,1762,50,238,54,74,67,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bbc","category-china","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-taiwan","category-uighurs","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30433","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30434,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30433\/revisions\/30434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}