Norman Spector reports on why there was no China-Canada news conference at the end of the state visit:
" . . . China’s embassy was concerned that a press conference would include journalists from two media organizations that Beijing detests: Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty.
"The Embassy therefore approached the organizers a few weeks ago and demanded that representatives of these media be excluded from the press conference. When the parliamentary press gallery refused to accede to the demand — on the basis that the two media organizations were full members of the gallery — the Embassy turned to the PMO, which took up its cause.
"At first, Mr. Harper’s advisers tried to negotiate a compromise with the gallery — but these negotiations did not bear fruit. In the end, the press conference (which had never been officially announced) was cancelled . . ."
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" . . . China’s embassy was concerned that a press conference would include journalists from two media organizations that Beijing detests: Epoch Times and New Tang Dynasty.
"The Embassy therefore approached the organizers a few weeks ago and demanded that representatives of these media be excluded from the press conference. When the parliamentary press gallery refused to accede to the demand — on the basis that the two media organizations were full members of the gallery — the Embassy turned to the PMO, which took up its cause.
"At first, Mr. Harper’s advisers tried to negotiate a compromise with the gallery — but these negotiations did not bear fruit. In the end, the press conference (which had never been officially announced) was cancelled . . ."
Click on the title to read the full column.
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