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CBC is shutting its China Bureau after 40 years. Trudeau Sr must be rolling in his grave. China stonewalling the free press, who'd have thunk it.

CBC shutting down its China news bureau
Move comes after visa request was met by months-long silence from Chinese officials
CBC News · Posted: Nov 02, 2022

CBC News is shutting down its Beijing news bureau after a more-than-40-year presence in China, saying it was forced to take the step after officials have ignored repeated requests for a journalist work visa.

"There is no point keeping an empty bureau when we could easily set up elsewhere in a different country that welcomes journalists and respects journalistic scrutiny," said CBC News editor-in-chief Brodie Fenlon, announcing the move in a blog posted Wednesday.

"Closing the Beijing bureau is the last thing we want to do, but our hand has been forced."

The decision follows numerous exchanges and requests for meetings with the Chinese Consulate in Montreal since October 2020 to procure a visa for Philippe Leblanc, a journalist with Radio-Canada, CBC's French-language counterpart....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/china...down-1.6637691