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BBC Banned from Broadcasting in China

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   China's broadcasting regulator says it has taken the BBC World News off
   the air for what it called "serious content violations."
   The decision comes one week after Britain's broadcasting regulator, the
   Office of Communications, revoked the license of the state-owned China
   Global Television Network. The office said the Chinese Communist Party
   oversees the network's editorial policy, a violation of a British law
   forbidding political bodies from controlling broadcast license holders
   On Thursday, the Chinese National Radio and Television Administration
   (NRTA) said the BBC "was found to have seriously violated regulations
   on radio and television management" in its China-related reports, and
   "undermined China's national interests and ethnic solidarity."
   From her Twitter feed, Australia-based BBC World News Presenter Yalda
   Hakim said that according to NRTA, the BBC was responsible for a "slew
   of falsified reporting" on issues including the treatment of the Uighur
   ethnic minority in the western Xinjiang region and China's handling of
   the COVID-19 pandemic.
   In a statement posted on Twitter, the BBC said it is "disappointed" by
   China's actions.

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