Rights Group Condemns Chinese Diplomats for Denigrating International Media’s Pandemic Coverage

A newspaper headline about the coronavirus outbreak is seen on a near-deserted street in Sydney on March 30, 2020. PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images

Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a nonprofit that advocates for press freedom, called on Chinese ambassadors around the world to stop taking shots at international media over its critical coverage of the Chinese regime’s response to the pandemic.

“These statements by China’s ambassadors reflect a policy concerted at the highest level of the Chinese government that aims to control international media coverage,” said Cédric Alviani, head of RSF’s East Asia bureau, in a statement issued on April 2.