China Rebukes the U.S. After Saying It Will Expel American Journalists

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...PGB?li=BBnb7Kz


HONG KONG — China took a combative stance on Wednesday, accusing the United States of starting a diplomatic war that led it to expel almost all American journalists from three newspapers.

In articles and commentaries from China’s propaganda organs as well as remarks by a top spokeswoman, Beijing indicated it would not back down, accusing the United States of starting the dispute. The state media commentary also focused sharply on reporting by the three outlets, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, which the government has often accused of being unfair.
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“We reject ideological bias against China, reject fake news made in the name of press freedom, reject breaches of ethics in journalism,” tweeted Hua Chunying, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman.
An article from The Global Times, a stridently nationalistic tabloid controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, criticized the The New York Times’s coverage of the coronavirus outbreak, the monthslong antigovernment protests in Hong Kong, and the Chinese authorities’ internment of ethnic minority Muslims in far western Xinjiang. The paper’s coverage of the epidemic, the article said, was “aiming to attack China’s political system and smear China’s efforts” to contain the virus.
It said reports by the Times and other outlets about the government’s policies in the Xinjiang region had “smeared and attacked China without basis.”
Under China’s leader, Xi Jinping, the news media has come under an increasingly tighter grip and foreign reporters have been punished with visa denials. In recent weeks as the coronavirus spread through China, the government cracked down on domestic and foreign reporting, muzzling medical professionals and censoring and removing reports and commentary online that has challenged the official narrative.
China said Tuesday that it would require all American journalists for the three newspapers whose credentials expire by the end of the year to turn in their press cards within 10 days. It said they would not be allowed to continue working as journalists in China.
In an unusual move, its announcement said the Americans were also forbidden from working as journalists in Macau or Hong Kong, two semiautonomous Chinese territories that have traditionally had greater protections for press freedom than the mainland. It was not immediately clear how Beijing would enforce this.
China also said it was requiring the three outlets as well as Time magazine and Voice of America to disclose details of their staff, assets and operations in China.
The move would affect at least 13 American journalists but the number could be higher, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China said in a statement on Wednesday.
The organization said the expulsion “diminishes us in number and in spirit, though not in our commitment to vigorously cover China. There are no winners in the use of journalists as diplomatic pawns by the world’s two pre-eminent economic powers.”
The news outlets condemned the Chinese government’s decision. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the expulsions “unfortunate” and said he hoped China would reconsider.
Beijing has said that the move was in retaliation for the Trump administration’s decision to limit the number of Chinese citizens from five state-controlled Chinese media outlets who can work in the United States to 100, which forced the expulsion of about 60.
The Global Times echoed this in an editorial on Wednesday that accused Washington of starting the tit-for-tat. “As a Chinese media, we regret that the conflict between China and the United States has escalated due to political differences,” adding that both Chinese and American journalists were “implicated by political frictions between China and the United States.”
The moves against the American outlets follow the expulsion of three Journal reporters over the headline last month, “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” on an op-ed column about the country’s coronavirus response efforts.
In recent days, the People’s Daily, a Communist Party mouthpiece, and China Daily, a state-run newspaper, posted messages that circulated widely on China’s Twitter-like forum Weibo targeting the Times for what they called “double standards” in its tweets about the lockdown imposed in China and in Italy to curb the spread of the virus.
The foreign ministry left several questions unanswered in its statement on Tuesday, including how and whether the Hong Kong government would take further steps to enforce Beijing’s expulsion. Hong Kong operates under a political formula known as “one country, two systems,” that promises the Chinese territory a high degree of autonomy, including independent courts, a free news media and extensive protections of civil liberties.
Many global news organizations use Hong Kong as headquarters for the Asia region. Under the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, the region has jurisdiction over immigration matters. If Hong Kong refused to allow the journalists to work in the city, it would be seen by some critics as the latest sign of eroding freedoms in the territory.
“Whichever way Beijing decides to proceed, it will be a blow to the ‘one country, two systems’ formula,” said Jason Y. Ng, a prominent writer and lawyer in Hong Kong. “So let’s hope that this hastily put together statement is more political posturing than genuine policy and that the Foreign Ministry has no intention to actually implement it in Hong Kong.”


Chin and the Chinese Communist Party took a lesson from the Fascist DPST Party and LSM - kicking out all US journalists - and the LSM has been hailing the chinese government (CCP) releases blaming the coronavirus on the US military.

Looks like china learned from the LSM and its controlling party - the DPST party!

LeBron James needs to step up and support china

LeBron James needs to step up and support china AGAIN Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought

The Fascist DPST's and LSM are full bore supporting the ChiComs - The DPST's do love their totalitarian control- and think that living under comrade Xi would be better than Trump.



Foolish fascist DPST's.


It will be interesting to see if all American journalists are expelled from Hong Kong - the resistance will see it as an intrusion and violation of the Hong Kong rights under treaty .

will it start another wave of protests - Hope so.

either way the ChiComs will lose - for if they permit Americans and other foreign journalists critical of China to stay - they violate their own policy directive.

And will be seen a weakening of the authority of Xi in Hong Kong.


We need to send back to China all the foreign "students" in the labs of America - who are rally spies for technology and information for China.

That would be vigorously protested by the Socialist ChiCom supporting university types - who might have to do some work rather than rest on their tenure.
See what China makes of that - and i am fine with pulling every American out of China. Including Bloomberg's minions who do the ChiCom bidding - they enriched him greatly to do their bidding.

If Trump is smart, the CCP students are next along with their zampolit cells.

Looks like Trump took my advice! OK, he never heard me say it I'm sure but I did say it before it happened. America needs to start pulling away from China, from getting supplies that we no longer manufacture but need.


A representative of China said the other day that China could halt the flow of drugs we need ( because most are now made in China ) and "drown America in a sea of corona virus". Nice huh? And this from the assholes responsible for not taking the measures needed in the beginning because protecting their Communist party is more important than the lives of their citizens and the worlds citizens by having freedom of information.


China actually arrested and prosecuted doctors for speaking out about what happened.


We need to start buying American no matter the cost and punishing anybody with taxes who moves their manufacturing to China. You want to manufacture your product outside of America, fine, do it in a country friendly to America and not one who will hold us hostage.


Didn't we learn a damn thing from being dependent on Middle East oil? Trump could show us the way out of this stupidity we have found ourselves in AGAIN.

HF - +1

china runs a disinformation campaign against us, most likely including on social media, a social media their own citizens are banned from viewing

they accuse us of being racist if we refer to the virus' origination

the dim lapdog media goes along with them and accuses President Trump of racist comments

china even goes as far as accusing our military of planting the virus in Wuhan

and still the dim media attacks President Trump at every press briefing being held for referring to the virus' origination

its rich that one of the world's most racist country- as ruled by communists- knows our weakness , which is wokeness and American leftist racial idiocies and political correctness, and uses it against us all the while lying through their teeth and threatening us- and the dim news media goes along with them without one scintilla of thought

the sort of education (brain washing) our youth receive in some homes and in college is alarming to say the least and there seems a a strain of hatred of America running through most all the left media presents

Holy fuck me shit ob1. Can you copy n paste n post a little more. China Russia n Saudia is kicking sand in the Putin puppets face while your twit head n charge is telling the world what a great best ever job he is doing. If you don't believe me ask the bottom of the swamp advisors lol. Btw ignorant fuck...China is paying for the tariffs and Mexico is paying for the wall

I can proudly admit, as poor as it may be, I did no such thing of which you accuse me

in addition, the rest of your post has not one thing to do with mine

...is telling the world what a great best ever job he is doing. Originally Posted by Tsmokies

Ummm...Isn't it Cuomo, Omar, Bash and others saying what a great job Trump is doing.

Fascist DPST's are lashing out in fear and rage over the defections from their political narrative.

The name-calling and scatology are rising exponentially.

As are the 3rd grade level posts from the fascist DPST's!


Correct for two issues - China is paying the tariffs, and Mexico is effectively opposing the Open Borders policy of the Fascist DPST's - Too Bad- So Sad !!
LOL

trump should suspend trade talks until further notice and resume the tariff rate increase.

I heard a brief bit on the radio this morning as I was getting out of my truck that even the u.n. security council has rebuked china for its concerted campaign of disinformation, including a campaign on social media its own citizens are barred from viewing by leftwing totalitarians, concerning the wuhan chinese coronavirus

So how do yous square your daily mantra of the LSM, the DPSTs and everybody else who disagrees with Trump being stooges of the Chinese?

They ought to be suing Trump supporters for racisms.

You must be low on Vagisil, bitch.