Foreign media becomes the latest casualty in what experts and a China foreign correspondent say are President Xi Jinping's efforts to strengthen 'control on Chinese society'.
China currently ranks 177 out of 180 countries on the RFS world press freedom index — only Eritrea, Turkmenistan and North Korea are ranked lower.
"There has been a consistent harassment on foreign correspondents … This harassment includes threatening other journalists and their sources, monitoring the journalist's conversations, following them in the streets and also threatening to not renew their visa."Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.The ABC's China correspondent left China after seeking refuge from Chinese authorities in Australia's Beijing embassy.
Will Glasgow from The Australian, who was based in Beijing, is also out of the country and China has not issued new visas for journalists from the ABC and Nine Newspapers. Chris Buckley has been working as a translator, researcher and reporter in China for more than two decades.
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