FCCC Statement on Journalist Departures

March 30, 2021 The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is concerned and saddened to learn that John Sudworth, the BBC’s award-winning China correspondent for the last nine years, left mainland China at short notice on March 23rd amid concerns for his safety and that...

FCCC Statement on Press Conferences at the “Two Sessions”

March 26, 2021 The annual session of China’s parliament has illustrated a worrying trend in the way foreign journalists are allowed to work in the country. During Beijing’s “Two Sessions” legislative and political meetings in early March, many international...

FCCC Statement on Chinese Blocking of Foreign News Websites

China’s internet censorship tools block access to publicly-available websites belonging to nearly a quarter of the foreign news organizations accredited to report in China. An analysis conducted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China and GreatFire.org shows that...