The Truth about China: Propaganda, Patriotism and the Search for Answers Birtles Bill A&U ANZ author
The Truth about China: Propaganda, Patriotism and the Search for Answers Birtles Bill A&U ANZ author A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with…
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The Truth about China: Propaganda, Patriotism and the Search for Answers Birtles Bill A&U ANZ author
A thrilling and provocative account of unfolding tensions between China and the West, filled with the people, stories and sticky situations from Bill Birtles' five years as ABC correspondent. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. 'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were.
And they wanted me out.'Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Embassy in Beijing while diplomats delicately negotiated his departure in an unprecedented standoff with China's government. They live it, they get it. Five days later he was on a flight back to Sydney, leaving China without any Australian foreign correspondents on the ground for the first time in decades.A journalist's perspective on this rising global power has never been more important, as Australia's