{"id":1754815,"date":"2022-11-29T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754815"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T15:49:21","slug":"britain-summons-chinas-ambassador-over-assault-of-bbc-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/britain-summons-chinas-ambassador-over-assault-of-bbc-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Summons China\u2019s Ambassador Over Assault of BBC Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritain-summons-chinas-ambassador-over-assault-of-bbc-journalist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By William James and Farouq Suleiman<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters)\u2014Britain summoned China&#8217;s ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist whose employer, the BBC, said had been assaulted by Chinese police while he was covering a protest in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has deepened long-running diplomatic tension between Britain and China over a range of issues including human rights, China&#8217;s approach to Taiwan, security laws in Hong Kong, and Chinese economic policies.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the BBC said its journalist Ed Lawrence was beaten, arrested, and handcuffed while covering protests against strict COVID-19 measures. China&#8217;s foreign ministry has disputed the account.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his arrival at a NATO foreign ministers&#8217; meeting in Bucharest, Britain&#8217;s foreign minister James Cleverly said he had instructed that the Chinese envoy be summoned over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is incredibly important that we protect media freedom. It is something very much at the heart of the UK&#8217;s belief system, and it is incredibly important that journalists can go about their business unmolested and without fear of attack,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak criticized the Chinese approach to the protests, saying that instead of listening to its people, the government was choosing to crack down further.<\/p>\n<p>That drew a rebuke from China&#8217;s embassy in London. On Tuesday, it published a statement on its website attributed to an embassy spokesperson: &#8220;The UK side is in no position\u2002to pass judgment\u2002on China&#8217;s COVID\u2002policy or other\u2002internal affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement added there were &#8220;serious problems&#8221; with Britain&#8217;s own COVID policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China respects the right of journalists to\u2002report, but they\u2002must abide by the laws and regulations of the\u2002host country. No journalist, including British ones, is exempt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Britain last called in a senior Chinese diplomat to complain in October over the treatment of a man who was protesting outside the Chinese consulate in Manchester, northern England.<\/p>\n<p>The man said he was dragged inside the grounds by masked men, kicked and punched, in an incident that was captured on camera. China said protesters had stormed its grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, in August, Britain summoned the Chinese ambassador to ask him to explain his country&#8217;s actions towards Taiwan. China responded by criticizing then-prime minister Liz Truss for &#8220;irresponsible rhetoric&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A British parliamentary committee said on Tuesday it was visiting Taiwan this week to meet President Tsai Ing-Wen and other senior officials.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by William James and Farouq Suleiman; Additional reporting by John Irish in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters)\u2014Britain summoned China&#8217;s ambassador on Tuesday to raise the treatment of a British journalist whose employer, the BBC, said had been assaulted by Chinese police while he was covering a protest in Shanghai.<br \/>\nThe post Britain Summons China\u2019s Ambassador Over Assault of BBC Journalist appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1754819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1754819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}