Reporters face increasingly repressive China: FCCC

By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Foreign journalists last year faced an increasingly “challenging and restrictive” environment that comprised the “new abnormal” in China, a report released on Monday by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in China (FCCC) said. China is one of the most challenging environments globally for reporters, an assessment the group confirmed in its latest survey, it said. Of 89 correspondents polled, 94 percent said that reporting conditions in China usually did not meet or had never met global standards, it said. The Chinese State Council Information Office holds a news conference in Beijing on Jan. 19. Photo: CNA About 64 percent of respondents reported that Chinese officials or police had obstructed their work at least once, 40 percent face