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Suspected of being involved in the arrest of a well-known Chinese presenter Cheng Lei in Beijing, China forced an interview with two Australian journalists this week. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Australian Financial Review have urgently evacuated journalists.
Relations between China and Australia have deteriorated. According to reports by Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC), Australian Financial Review (Australian Financial Review) and Reuters, ABC Special Representative in Beijing, Bill Birtles and the mainland’s Ministry of Homeland Security requested the special representative of “Australian Financial Review” in Shanghai, Mike Smith, to do an interview for an hour. After the interview, Beijing allowed them to leave the country. ) I returned to Australia every day.
Last week, Australian diplomats in Beijing and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) suddenly warned Botters and the ABC, suggesting that Botters leave the country as soon as possible, and the ABC made arrangements for reporters . For the return plane, Botters was originally scheduled to leave the country on the morning of the 3rd.
Unexpectedly, just late at night before Bottles returned to China, seven Chinese policemen suddenly visited Bottles’ apartment. At the time, he was having a farewell meal with other colleagues. The plainclothes police told him that he had been restricted from leaving the country and interviewed by the authorities about the “National Security Incident.” In the next few days, Botters moved to the area of the Australian diplomatic mission in Beijing. Chinese officials also requested an interview. The two countries reached an agreement after mediation. After Botters accepted the hour-long interview, China must withdraw. Prohibition of restricted exit.
During the interview with the Ministry of National Security on the 6th, Bottles was not asked about the content of the report on the continent. Instead, she was told that she was a well-known Australian presenter of China’s official media “China Global Television Network”. Lei) In the case of the arrest, the police were “interested”, but not the suspect. After the interview, Beijing lifted the exit ban on Portels.
The “Australian Financial Review” journalist Smith also faced the same situation. After the incident, he entered the Australian consulate in Shanghai to apply for asylum and was interviewed on the night of the 7th. Smith and Bottles returned to Sydney on the morning of the 8th.
After returning to Australia, Bottles described the experience as a “cyclone” and was disappointed to leave China in such circumstances.
The “Australian Financial Review” noted that Beijing’s method of forcing journalists from foreign media out of the country had never been seen before. In the past, if China did not recognize a journalist, it expelled him outright.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation noted that following Bottles and Smith’s withdrawal to Australia, Will Glasgow, the Australian mainland China specialist, has also returned to China. This is the first time in mainland China since the 1970s. There is no Australian media reporter approved by the authorities. So far, the Beijing authorities have not issued new visas for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. The Australian special commissioner for the Australian media in Beijing, the Sydney Morning Drive reported that the Australian newspaper recently plans to send the special commissioner Glasgow back to Beijing, but the Australian government does not recommend that they send reporters back.
(Zhongshi News Network)
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