Barring Access and Promoting ‘Positive’ News: How the Chinese Government Has Controlled the Narrative During the Tibet Floods
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Guest of the Day - Is China Censoring Information About the Tragedy of the Flood in Nepal and Tibet?
The work in Nepal and Tibet after the flood focuses on conducting DNA tests on unidentified remains, a task that, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), China would be controlling and censoring the press and international human rights researchers, so it is suspected to be a new attempt to control narratives. Do Chinese actions impact the balance of dead and missing? We discuss it with Federico Borello, deputy executive director and director of H…
While the death toll from the floods in Nepal continues to rise, the number of deaths in the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet remained stable at 16 for days. Meanwhile, the death toll has risen to 21. The actual number there may be much higher as well, but that is difficult to verify. "China is trying to control the flow of information from the region and is succeeding quite well."
Barring access and promoting ‘positive’ news: how the Chinese government has controlled the narrative during the Tibet floods
As rescue efforts have continued on both sides of the border following the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, a fight over how the disaster is being reported has been growing in intensity on social media. The dispute centres on the claims and counterclaims following a story by the BBC’s China correspondent, Laura Bicker, about how China is censoring videos of the floods. Bicker said videos of the landslide and flood surge sweeping through Gy…
China's strict censorship of the devastating floods in Tibet, RSF report reveals: Restrictions on independent media and international journalists, significant discrepancies in death figures, social media posts deleted, Tibet becomes an 'information black hole'.
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