The BBC's long-serving China correspondent has fled to Taiwan after facing threats of legal action, obstruction and intimidation from Chinese authorities. The BBC said Mr Sudworth is still their China correspondent and said his work 'exposed truth the Chinese authorities did not want the world to know'. It comes amid rising tensions between the BBC and China over the latter's condemnation of the corporation's reporting on Xinjiang, Covid-19 and Hong Kong. The Uighur are a mostly Muslim, non-Chinese ethnic group living in supposedly autonomous Xinjiang Province, north-west China. 'We urge China to live up to its stated commitment to facilitate unhindered reporting in China.

Source: Daily Mail March 31, 2021 23:39 UTC