China announced that it would force American journalists to leave the country as media freedom increased.
China on Wednesday announced that it would force American journalists from three major US newspapers to leave the country as media freedom increased.
China’s move against three major US newspapers — The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal — came as the superpowers also feuded over the COVID-19 pandemic, with US President Donald Trump provocatively branding the said virus as the “Chinese Virus”.
Beijing said that the expulsions were in retaliation to Washington’s decision to cut the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work for its state-run media in the United States.
The foreign ministry said that the journalists must hand back their credentials within 10 days, and highlighted they would also not be able to work in the semi-autonomous cities of Hong Kong and Macau.
According to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC), at least 13 American journalists currently working in the country would be expelled. The row increased as the United States reclassified Chinese state-run media operating in the United States as foreign missions.
The FCCC also said that it “deplores” the measures, warning “there are no winners in the use of journalists as diplomatic pawns by the world’s two pre-eminent economic powers.”
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