Hong-Kong Protests

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This is why we and China can not abandon Hong Kong. Because there are still patriots there. Don't believe the MSM narratives that ALL Hong Kongers all against China.

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• British regulator Ofcom investigating four broadcasts by CGTN aired in August and September
• Watchdog looking at whether programmes ‘broke rules requiring news to be presented with due impartiality’

Britain’s communications regulator has launched an investigation into coverage of the Hong Kong protests by the overseas arm of Chinese state broadcaster China Global Television Network (CGTN).

“We are investigating whether these programmes broke our rules requiring news to be presented with due impartiality,” said an Ofcom spokesperson, referring to four separate broadcasts on Hong Kong’s anti-government protests that aired in Britain on three dates in August and one in September.

The investigation brings the total number of programmes from CGTN and its Beijing-based parent company China Central Television (CCTV) under investigation to eight, according to Ofcom documents.

Media reports have linked earlier investigations, launched in May, to complaints about the network’s airing of forced confessions made by detained Hong Kong bookseller

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. The programmes under investigation range in date from August 2013 to February 2018, according to Ofcom.

The latest investigation into the Hong Kong coverage comes as CGTN is set to open its London headquarters and is expanding its European footprint, part of China’s decade-long coordinated push to grow its overseas media influence.

Overseas arms of China’s state media have drawn criticism for coverage of the anti-government mass protests which have gripped Hong Kong and drawn global attention since the start of June, with most scrutiny focused around the networks’ social media presence.

Social media giant Twitter moved to ban advertisements from state media on its platform last month, as reports emerged that China state media used the paid promotions to call into question human rights abuses in Xinjiang and promote the central government’s view on the Hong Kong protests.

Broadcast media expert and lecturer in media and communication at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University Yik Chan Chin said that compliance with overseas media regulations was a burden for many of China’s outwardly mobile media companies.

“Impartiality is not part of the requirements for domestic media in China,” Chin said, noting there would likely exist a certain amount of autonomy for the overseas branches balanced with a need to follow central guidance “to an extent”.

“But if they take global expansion seriously, they need to be aware of the local regulations and comply with them,” she said, noting that Ofcom appeared to be increasing its scrutiny of the network, which had been broadcast as CCTV in Britain before being launched as a separate international arm in 2016.

“It could be because the Hong Kong issue has been very prominent [in the news] and CGTN’s presence is becoming more prominent than before, so those are a couple of reasons that could have triggered the investigation,” she said.

In 2015, Ofcom found CCTV’s British licence holder Star China Media “failed to preserve due impartiality” for CCTV News coverage related to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Occupy Central movement in 2014.

CGTN is “shortly opening up” its London-based news office in Chiswick, originally slated for a 2018 opening, according to CGTN materials.

The London-based office is part of the CGTN mission to “provide objective, balanced, and impartial news and current affairs content” while “reporting the news from a Chinese perspective”, according to CGTN Europe’s LinkedIn page.

CGTN and its British broadcasting licence-holder did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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bluewater2012 said:

I could not watch the FB video but watched a similar video happened this past weekend on youtube and I’m presuming this is the same video about an old man with tattoo in the arm trying to leave the area in a taxi after being harassed by rioters for filming them.

The moment the victim exit the taxi he was hit on the head by a guy in red standing next to him with the victim phone and then his head was covered with bloods the moment he fell to the floor.

I rewatch that scene several time to find out where the bloods came from and noted before he was struck in the head with the phone, someone among the crowd either from the above crowd or behind camera shot a pellet at the victim head. I heard a shot sound before he was struck in the head with the phone. I personally think it’s similar to the weapon that blinded the girl right eye a month back that they blamed it on HK police.

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Dolcevita said:

Don't bother. He is a just a regular Australian guy that gets his panty wet from the violence and destruction of HK. He does not care about the truth.

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