China bans BBC from broadcasting for violating reporting guidelines

TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ In an apparent tit for tat move, China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country for seriously violating its guidelines for reporting, China’s television and radio regulator has announced.

The move comes a week after Ofcom, the British media regulator, revoked the licence of Chinese state-owned broadcaster China Global Television Network’s to broadcast in the United Kingdom.

China has criticised the BBC for its reporting on the deadly coronavirus pandemic and the persecution of ethnic minority Uighurs in the restive Xinjiang province and lodged a protest with the British broadcaster.

The BBC said it was “disappointed” by China’s decision to ban it. The Chinese regulator, the National Radio and Television Administration has made the announcement on Thursday night on pulling BBC World News off the air in the country for serious content violation.