Newspaper Critical of Chinese Regime Faces Discrimination in Australia After Pressure From Chinese Officials

Chinese man reads the Vision China Times, one of the only remaining independent Chinese-language newspapers that doesn't bow to the demands of the Chinese Communist Party. Matthew Robertson

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has pressured a Sydney council to ban an Australian-owned independent Chinese-language media company from sponsoring an event because it is critical of the Chinese regime, a joint investigation by Four Corners, The Age, and The Sydney Morning Herald has found.

Documents obtained by the publications revealed that Sydney’s Georges River Council received at least eight warnings over the past 14 months from Chinese officials after they learned of its sponsorship deals with Vision China Times.