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The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC; ) is the professional organization of foreign journalists based in
Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
. In July 2018, because FCCC was not officially registered, the Chinese government considered the organization to be an illegal organization.


History

The club was established in 1981 as the Foreign Correspondents Club of Beijing. In January 2019, the FCCC published a report titled “Under Watch: Reporting in China’s Surveillance State” that outlined a significant crackdown on reporting, particularly in
Xinjiang Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
. In January 2022, the FCCC published a report outlining how foreign journalists in China were subject to rising intimidation by the Chinese government. In February 2022, the FCCC condemned treatment of foreign journalists covering the
2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), were an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beijing, China, and surrounding areas wit ...
in Beijing. These included government interference with interviews and online attacks, along with physical altercations against journalists by security.


References

Foreign correspondents' clubs


External links

* {{Official website Mass media in China Mass media in Beijing