The Chinese regime’s expulsion of a New York Times reporter signals a severe clampdown on foreign press freedoms in China and will prompt Washington to launch tougher countermeasures against Beijing, analysts say.
China’s Foreign Ministry on June 1 accused the journalist of tricking people into unknowingly taking interviews, and said that led to the revocation of her residence permit.
The ministry offered no evidence to support its claim of deceptive reporting tactics.
The remarks came in response to a New York Times report on May 29 confirming that its China correspondent Vivian Wang had been ordered out of the country in February….
Beijing’s Expulsion of Reporter Deepens Self-Censorship Among Foreign Press in China: Analysts
