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Louis Dor
Apr 13, 2016

A 'BBC' website in China appeared to have been mimicking the old corporation.
If you had visited bbcnews.com.cn you would have been greeted with this image:
For comparison, this is what the BBC's Chinese language website currently looks like:
The top website actually belongs to the Business Broadcast of China - and has nothing to do with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
If you visit the website presently, the logo and layout has been substantially changed, following news stories reporting the similarities:
The manager of the website told the LA Times:
We think it’s not proper to have the same colour as the BBC, so we’re changing it to grey.
The Business Broadcast of China's had featured articles about the Panama Papers - a subject which Beijing leadership has banned in the country's media - without mentioning Chinese leaders who had been implicated in the tax scandal.
The front page of the Business Broadcast of China now features a statement criticising coverage of similarities, insisting that the company made it clear it bears no relationship to the BBC or the United Kingdom.
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