The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the world’s largest federation of journalists’ unions, said in a new report that China uses a wide range of coercive means to control coverage of Chinese affairs by foreign journalists in China, and it could harm China’s own international image. The report, published when Beijing is hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics, points out that restrictions imposed by the regime on foreign journalists covering the Games underscore a sharp decline in media freedom in China over more than a decade. The IFJ report, published on Feb. 2, is titled Fair Game: The Endangered media space for foreign correspondents inside China 2022 . It focuses on Beijing’s control of foreign journalists stationed in China reporting on China’s domestic affairs. The report is based on interviews the IFJ carried out in December 2021 with 19 current or recent China-based journalists from nine countries. The interviewees included journalists …