The professional association of foreign journalists in Beijing.

On the occasion of a government-led reporting trip to Tibet for foreign journalists, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China calls on the government to apply its own reporting regulations and properly open Tibet to foreign journalists. A new FCCC survey about reporting access to Tibet found 86 percent of respondents said it is not currently possible to report [...]

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China calls for an end to the continued harassment and intimidation of Chinese employees working for foreign journalists. This week, an FCCC member working for German television reported that police in Beijing threatened and intimidated her Chinese assistant after, on her direction, he videotaped at a migrant school slated for [...]

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China regrets the missed opportunity to demonstrate openness when Chinese President Hu Jintao and U.S. President Barrack Obama read statements to the media at a press conference Nov. 17. Following the prepared statements, there was no chance for reporters attending the event to ask questions, which would have highlighted what [...]

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China welcomes President Hu Jintao’s pledge to uphold the legal rights of foreign journalists in China and calls on the Chinese government to make good on this promise. The FCCC also urges international media organizations attending the World Media Summit in Beijing to press China to keep its word on [...]

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China has received many complaints from members about severe problems with the allocation of passes for China’s Oct. 1 National Day parade, and a lack of transparency about the process. Journalists who did get passes got them late at night, after many hours of waiting. Other passes remained unclaimed after [...]