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had previously accused Chan of unspecified violations of the law that were never clarified. Press reports and the Foreign Correspondent's Club of China connected the expulsion to a documentary on slave labor in Chinese jails aired by Al Jazeera English that had angered Chinese authorities. Chan had no part in the production of the piece, however, and her expulsion occurred in the context of multiple conflicts between foreign reporters and the Chinese government over denials or delays in obtaining journalist visas.
445:. Cut off the foreign snake heads. People who can’t find jobs in the U.S. and Europe come to China to grab our money, engage in human trafficking and spread deceitful lies to encourage emigration. Foreign spies seek out Chinese girls to mask their espionage and pretend to be tourists while compiling maps and GPS data for Japan, Korea and the West. We kicked out that foreign bitch and closed Al-Jazeera’s Beijing bureau. We should shut up those who demonize China and send them packing. 40: 389:
hired Chan to work as a China correspondent at the network's Beijing bureau. During her five years with Al Jazeera English, she filed some 400 reports, including stories on land confiscation and so-called "black jails." Chan also reported stories from North Korea. In 2010, Chan wrote about the use
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In 2012, however, Chan's visa and press credentials were not renewed, forcing her to leave China. In the wake of her expulsion, the first of a foreign journalist since 1998, Al Jazeera English closed its Beijing bureau. The Chinese government provided no explanation for the move, though officials
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to transfer all donations for the reconstruction to the local administrators. Officials say it is to better track - and make better use of - the US $ 1.57 billion in donations to help victims. But such a move has never happened before, and it sets a precedent which some say is a step backwards for
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criticising some foreign citizens and journalists in China, especially targeting Chan, who was expelled from the country. Yang's statement occurred during an official Chinese government campaign to identify illegal foreign residents in China. Yang's full posting (translated from Mandarin by
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After leaving China, Chan completed a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University during the 2012–2013 academic year. She spent her year developing digital security training and tools for journalists facing potential hacker attacks from state-sponsored entities.
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Yang released a statement on May 21, 2012, defending his comments and seeking to correct supposed mischaracterisations of his message and the English translation of "foreign bitch" instead of "foreign shrew".
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from 2002 to 2004, eventually joining the production team at World News Tonight. After she moved to the UK to begin her studies at LSE, Chan continued working for ABC at its London bureau.
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wants to clean out the foreign trash: To arrest foreign thugs and protect innocent girls, they need to concentrate on the disaster zones in
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She spent time in Germany as a Robert Bosch Stiftung Transatlantic Fellow. She now works as a foreign affairs reporter based between
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Chan (far left) during a panel discussion 'Beyond Black Mirror - China's Social Credit System' (2019)
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Melissa Chan returned to Doha for New Challenge worldjournal.com (Chinese) May 17, 2012
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Upon completion of her M.Sc., Chan worked as a freelance journalist in Hong Kong.
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of the money allocated to help survivors and for reconstruction following the
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Goodbye to China, country of contradictions Al Jazeera English 13-May-2012
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civil society in China, putting all NGOs firmly under government control.
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State TV Host Responds to Controversy Over ‘Foreign Trash’ Comments
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State TV Host Offers Advice on How to Throw Out ‘Foreign Trash’
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working in broadcast and print. Her works have appeared in
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Melissa Chen

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Yale University
London School of Economics and Political Science
Stanford University
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