The United Kingdom’s regulator Ofcom revoked the license of China’s CGTN television, which can no longer broadcast in the U.K.. Ofcom claimed that the owner of CGTN, Star China Media, “has no editorial control over its programs” as CGTN is “ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.” Ofcom cited, in particular, that CGTN’s coverage of protests in Hong Kong were a “serious breach” of fairness.
This revocation comes one week after China announced that British National Overseas passports (held by many of Britain’s former colonial subjects in Hong Kong) would not be honored as travel or identification documents.
