China Freezes Credentials for Journalists at U.S. Outlets, Hinting at Expulsions

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Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Chinese government has stopped renewing press credentials for foreign journalists working for American news organizations in China and has implied it will proceed with expulsions if the Trump administration takes further action against Chinese media employees in the United States, according to six journalists and U.S. officials with knowledge of the events and statements on Monday by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.

The actions and threats raise the stakes in the continuing cycles of retribution between Washington and Beijing over news media organizations. Those rounds of retaliation are a prominent element of a much broader downward spiral in U.S.-China relations, one that involves mutually hostile policies and actions over trade, technology, education, diplomatic missions, Taiwan and military presence in Asia.

American news organizations immediately affected by China’s latest actions are CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and Getty Images. Journalists from all four organizations tried to renew press cards with the Foreign Ministry in the past week, but were told the cards, which are usually good for one year, could not be renewed. In total, at least five journalists in the four organizations have been affected so far.

One journalist said Foreign Ministry officials told him that his fate depended on whether the United States decided in the fall to renew the visas of Chinese journalists working in America who are under new visa regulations imposed by the Department of Homeland Security in May. Other journalists have received similar messages.

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Trump really showed them didn't he?

[Igel]

1. Last week China detained an American reporter.

At the wrong place at the right time.

US protested the detention.

Not much covered in the US press. The topic was inconvenient: suppression of Mongolian-speakers protesting being told that there'd be no more Mongolian in Chinese schools as more Han Chinese are moved into the area and communications with relatives in Mongolia are restricted. More of the "ethnic minorities are fine, as long as they're all Han and speak putonghua." Tibetans with Chinese culture, Mongolians with Chinese culture, Uighurs with Chinese culture. Even official Christian churches get to put images of Xi in the place of honor and are strongly encouraged to build sermons around the sayings of the Xi.

At least here you're allowed to have different values, as long as they're restricted to food, maybe clothing, and perhaps a bit of code-switching.