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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said on Wednesday it was shutting its news bureau in Beijing after waiting two years in vain for a China work permit for its journalists.
The publicly owned news outlet had numerous exchanges with Chinese officials in Canada over the past two years about visas but without a resolution, CBC News Editor-in-Chief Brodie Fenlon said in a blog post.
A letter sent to China’s ambassador to Canada in April was acknowledged but not followed up, Fenlon said.
The Chinese embassy in Ottawa did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The decision comes months after CBC News, which has had an office in China for over 40 years, was forced to shut its Moscow bureau by Russia’s foreign ministry in response to a Canadian ban on Russian state television station Russia Today.
A correspondent for CBC’s French-language service, Radio-Canada, was still waiting for a visa from China after having applied for one in October 2020, Fenlon said.
CBC’s English-language journalist who returned to Canada when China started to lock down at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic has not been able to return as a permanent correspondent either.

Sadly, CBC closing its China bureau after 40+ yrs in Beijing. In the 5 yrs I was there, official roadblocks made it increasingly difficult to report, and Beijing unresponsive in granting new visas to CBC. Still, being there remains best way to tell China story. Hope we’ll return pic.twitter.com/lO0fUc1ZHz
— Saša Petricic (@sasapetricic) November 2, 2022

“While there was no dramatic expulsion or pointed public statements, the effect is the same. We can’t get visas for our journalists to work there as permanent correspondents,” Fenlon said.
CBC would search for a new a location to cover East Asia over the coming months, while Radio-Canada will station its journalist in Taiwan for the next two years, Fenlon added.


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The broadcaster is closing its Beijing bureau after over 40 years, and will search for a new location to cover East Asia
CBC’s French-language service, Radio-Canada, will station its journalist in Taiwan



The broadcaster is closing its Beijing bureau after over 40 years, and will search for a new location to cover East Asia.


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