Source: China – South China Morning PostThe US must step up efforts to stem deteriorating press freedoms across East Asia, including supporting media outlets on mainland China’s periphery, lawmakers were told on Wednesday. A panel of rights campaigners issued the recommendations – including sanctions on those seen as undercutting press freedom and refuge for persecuted journalists – to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, amid warnings from advocacy groups that some governments want to replicate Beijing’s grip over…Read More