For the sake of balance and accuracy it's worth acknowledging the types of foreign journalists affected by the CCPs seeming censorship often have institutional affiliation with Western deep States. As political actors, from the Chinese perspective these people are hostile forces seeking to destabilise, neutralise and eviscerate China as it rises on the world stage. This is not apologia, I stand against China's policies of information control and organ harvesting, as well as their large numbers of billionaires, which are reprehensible, I just want to contextualise their approach to foreign journalists. Im trying to show how their approach is that of a rational actor. The approach to journalism in the UK is not much better either, seeing as MI5/MI6 have editorial influence over The Guardian. By all means criticise China, just don't turn them into the Asian bogeyman.
For the sake of balance and accuracy it's worth acknowledging the types of foreign journalists affected by the CCPs seeming censorship often have institutional affiliation with Western deep States. As political actors, from the Chinese perspective these people are hostile forces seeking to destabilise, neutralise and eviscerate China as it rises on the world stage. This is not apologia, I stand against China's policies of information control and organ harvesting, as well as their large numbers of billionaires, which are reprehensible, I just want to contextualise their approach to foreign journalists. Im trying to show how their approach is that of a rational actor. The approach to journalism in the UK is not much better either, seeing as MI5/MI6 have editorial influence over The Guardian. By all means criticise China, just don't turn them into the Asian bogeyman.