Published: July 27th, 2021,
Last updated: June 1st, 2022
It is a classic complaint among China’s rulers: foreign countries do not understand the People’s Republic. But to fully understand the full pictures, you need to look at both sides of the same coin. The everyday life of foreign journalists working in China, who set out to understand the country and its people, is becoming increasingly difficult. Marcel Grzanna describes how even reports on the Olympic Games or on the catastrophic flooding in Henan are provoking vicious threats against Western media.