‘Unacceptable’: UK attacks China after ban on BBC news services

Hours after China barred BBC World News from its television networks and Hong Kong’s public broadcaster said it would stop relaying BBC World Service radio, the UK dubbed the move “an unacceptable curtailing of media freedom”.

China’s tit-for-tat step came a week after the UK revoked the license of Chinese state-owned broadcaster China Global Television Network’s (CGTN). Its National Radio and Television Administration said BBC World News’ reports on China had “seriously violated” a requirement to be “truthful and fair”, harmed the country’s interests and undermined national unity.