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China grants limited foreign media access to flood-hit Tibet amid information-control allegations

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • China organized a limited reporting visit for foreign media to landslide-hit Gyirong County in Tibet on June 5 and 6.
  • The visit included journalists from CNN, NBC, Reuters, RT and selected countries, as China faced allegations of controlling information about the disaster.
  • Foreign journalists in Tibet generally cannot report freely and instead rely on officially organized visits with controlled schedules and routes.

China has allowed a small group of foreign journalists to visit a disaster site in Tibet, a move interpreted as an effort to dismiss allegations that authorities controlled or concealed information about the floods.

China’s State Council Information Office organized the visit to the landslide-hit area of Gyirong County on June 5 and 6 together with the Foreign Ministry, state broadcaster CCTV reported on the 7th. The area lies near Nepal, which suffered extensive flooding and landslides.

The group included journalists from the United States’ CNN and NBC, Britain’s Reuters and Russia’s RT, along with media representatives from Pakistan, Singapore, Brazil and several other countries. CCTV said the journalists visited the severely affected areas around the Gyirong border checkpoint and frontline rescue sites. It said they assessed the damage and observed rescue, recovery and reconstruction work.

Foreign journalists generally cannot report freely in western China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. Overseas media therefore have limited access through official reporting trips organized by Chinese authorities, which control the schedule and movements. The restricted visit came amid scrutiny of how information about the flooding was being handled.

The foreign journalists visited the severely affected areas around the Gyirong border checkpoint and the frontline rescue sites.

· CCTVThe Chinese state broadcaster described the locations visited during the organized foreign media trip.
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