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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by reustle on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:09PM (#17820602)
Is this surprising at all?
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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by shalmanese on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:24PM (#17821851)
Actually, it's pretty surprising. Western journalists/academics have always been given a fair degree of latitude for reporting inside of China as long as they only wrote in English for foreign press.

There's been an active contingent of China Twitter loudly saying for the past few months that academics and journalists should be speaking out more about Xinjiang because the likelihood of visa revoking has been vastly overstated. Recent reporting seems to have touched a special nerve and the reactions are far more extreme than other negative China stories that journalists have weathered in the past.

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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by busterarm on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:51PM (#17820971)
Seriously. What did she think was going to happen?

She's lucky they were nice enough to wait out the rest of her visa instead of revoking it and deporting her on the spot. Shrewd move on their part for that, btw. If she was a citizen they would have just disappeared or killed her.

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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by Sag0Sag0 on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:53PM (#17822979)
That's a bit much. It's unlikely that even if she was a citizen they would have disappeared or killed her. More like give her a firm warning and lecture and a vague threat or two of what may be to come if she keeps it up.
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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by Markoff on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:28AM (#17827530)
they don't kill for stuff like this anymore, more likely regular prison, but she is lucky to be foreigner, so they could just restrict her traveling rights to Xinjiang and wait until her visa run out
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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by danso on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:58PM (#17821022)
She's been there for 6 years. It doesn't sound like she or Buzzfeed is shocked, per se, but her recent story is far from her first investigative story critical of the Chinese government.

(full disclosure: I used to work with the reporter, but that was many years ago)

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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by shoulderfake on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:12PM (#17820628)
NOPE
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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by dang on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:17PM (#17822278)
Please don't do this here.
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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by Markoff on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:30AM (#17827543)
maybe add some flair to your name that you are mod, some people may be unaware of that
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Re:Buzzfeed journalist denied China visa following coverage ... by dang on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:29AM (#17828045)
We've thought about that off and on but somehow it doesn't feel like a fit for HN. Readers here figure things out.
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