Bloomberg News prevented its own reporters from following up on a 2012 article probing China’s wealthy ruling class due to worries that Beijing would kick the company out of the country and deprive it of lucrative business, the NPR reported on Monday.
A further probing article would “invite the Communist Party to… completely shut us down and kick us out of the country,” Bloomberg founding editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler said in a 2013 recording obtained by NPR.
The recording was of a conference call with members of Bloomberg’s China-based investigative team, which had been working for more than a year on a story exposing corruption connected to Chinese President Xi Jinping and his family .
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The Chinese Government allowed the Bloomberg managers to continue breathing. Something most of us enjoy.
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