China News Service, Beijing, October 22 (Reporter Zhang Weiran) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference on the 22nd that the United States is a real black hand that brutally suppresses the media and restricts press freedom. The United States has long been a beacon of self-proclaimed image. Exist in name only.
A reporter asked questions about the U.S. State Department’s announcement that six Chinese media agencies in the United States were designated as "foreign missions." The spokesperson of the U.S. State Department Ortegas said that free media around the world have an obligation to report the truth, while Chinese media have not "Press freedom".
How does China respond to this?
"The United States always talks about'freedom of the press', so let us see how they really perform." Zhao Lijian said.
He pointed out that according to the Washington Post, the U.S.'s ranking in the 2019 Annual Press Freedom Index has fallen for three consecutive years.
According to the "U.S. Press Freedom Tracking System" statistics, in 2019 alone, there were 28 incidents in which journalists were refused to participate in public government activities in the United States.
Since the beginning of this year, there have been 223 attacks on journalists in the United States, 73 journalists have been arrested, and more than 868 cases of infringements on press freedom have been reported during the "Black People's Life" protests.
The American "New York Times", "Capitol Hill" and the British "Guardian" and other media have reported the news of reporters being attacked and arrested in the above activities.
Between May 26 and June 2, 2020 alone, 148 journalists were affected.
Among them, 40 journalists were shot by bullets, 34 journalists were personally attacked by the police, 33 journalists were arrested or detained, and even a female photographer was hit by a rubber bullet in the left eye, causing permanent blindness.
Zhao Lijian said that in January of this year, National Public Radio disclosed that US Secretary of State Pompeo was dissatisfied with the question of a female reporter of the station by making provocative and contemptuous "personal attacks" on the station, and that the station was violently removed. A list of his accompanying media.
The U.S. government denounces news reports that do not meet its own preferences as "fake news." I believe that the "New York Times" and other U.S. media have already experienced it.
The British "Guardian" quoted the American media as saying that the current US government "has carried out the longest attack on press freedom in history."
"Just ask, what qualifications does such a US government have to talk about freedom of the press? They wantonly interfere with the reports of domestic and foreign media reporters, arbitrarily discredit and suppress domestic and foreign media reporters." Zhao Lijian pointed out that if freedom of the press is really to be discussed, then the United States is brutally suppressing it. The media, the real black hand that restricts press freedom, and the self-proclaimed beacon image of the United States has long existed in name only.
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