The World Cup in Qatar is a phenomenon that has attracted the attention of the whole world, but the Chinese have decided to broadcast the matches in a completely different way.

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For more than 3 years, China’s anti-covid restrictions have made citizens lose patience with the authorities, and the state is doing everything it can to keep people locked in their homes.

China’s state-run television broadcasts World Cup footage 32 seconds behind FIFA’s global broadcast

Bill Bertles, a journalist who works for a television station in Australia, noticed differences between the broadcasts of Canadian SBS television and Chinese state television.

The journalist drew attention to the fact that shots with fans in the stadiums are completely absent, and this is explained very simply.

Due to the pandemic in China, which is accompanied by extensive restrictions on all citizens, state television has decided not to broadcast images of spectators present in arenas to avoid showing them not wearing protective masks and not following social distancing rules.

“I thought it was untrue when someone told me that Chinese state television had censored images of fans in the stands at the World Cup. But the situation is real.

In the foreground you have images broadcast by all the television channels in the world, showing fans in the stands. The Chinese station decided to broadcast images of the coaches on the sidelines instead of showing sequences with the fans.

I watched two broadcasts of the Chinese from the World Cup. How obvious they decided to do it.

Soccer fans in China would probably say that their government doesn’t censor anything, they just decide to change the footage they broadcast.

I spoke to a friend in Beijing who told me he didn’t notice anything unusual about their transmission from the country.” – said the journalist, reports the Daily Mail.