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Foreign Journalists Kidnapped and Threatened With Death in China
A German film crew was recently attacked and held hostage in China for being ‘foreign spies’. Their crime? Reporting on pollution at a Do-Flouride factory (1).
The act of Chinese nationals, kidnapping and then beating a foreign crew, show not only an increase in the xenophobia and intolerance of foreigners on Chinese soil (2), but also the impact of China’s recent campaign against non-Chinese.
This harrowing experience is a brutal reminder of the growing instability in China today. While big business and corporate-run media in the U.S. will not share news of such anti-foreign events inside of China, these events are of growing concern to the expat population in China.
The fear of a coming revolution is ever present.
Some Background
A crew of four German reporters were doing a story on pollution in a plant at Zhengzhou, China. In the process of filming, the Germans were surrounded by local Chinese who worked for the polluting plant.
The Chinese workers surrounded the Germans, calling them foreign spies.
The journalists were allegedly beaten and then kidnapped or ‘taken into Read more…
2012-08-20 11:45:54
Source: http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2012/08/foreign-journalists-beat-in-china/
