With China’s Foreign Ministry refusing to grant visas for New York Times and Bloomberg News reporters in China, we will speak with journalist Paul Mooney, who has been based in Beijing since 1994, but in November his visa application was rejected by the Chinese government with no reason given. We discuss why the current leadership in China is trying to intimidate foreign journalists into towing the party line and the extent to which revelations about massive corruption among top Communist Party officials and their families by the New York Times and Bloomberg have reached the Chinese people and led to efforts to restrict the ability of foreign reporters to do their jobs. ianmasters/sites/default/files/images/bbriefing_2014_01_30b_paul%20mooney.mp3
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:17:38 +0000