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which has also been taking a more confrontational stance with China - have discussed creating a coalition of countries to counter Beijing. and opposing the new security law imposed in Hong Kong. The shift comes amid a deterioration of ties between the two countries in recent weeks, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government banning telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Scheduling on the broadcaster’s main website shows a match between Leicester City FC and Manchester United will be shown on the HD channel Sunday local time, but the game isn’t listed in the programming for the main CCTV-5 channel. There is one final round of matches remaining in the Premier League season, slated to be played this weekend. It’s not clear if the main sports channel, CCTV-5, will show the remainder of the current competition round, the person said. The match was shifted to CCTV-5+, a high definition channel regarded as the broadcaster’s secondary sports offering, the person said, asking not to be identified discussing internal matters.

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Beijing/Hong Kong: China’s state television broadcaster is relegating English Premier League football matches from its main sports channel to one that lures fewer viewers, a sign the lucrative world of professional soccer is being ensnared in the increasingly fraught relations between Beijing and the U.K.ĬCTV, which has the rights to broadcast Premier League matches in China, didn’t air a match between Liverpool FC and Chelsea FC on its main sports channel, CCTV-5, as planned early Thursday morning, said a person familiar with the decision.

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