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China Expels American Journalists From Five Publications Including The NY Times And Washington Post
2020-03-18
[Hot Air] China has announced plans to expel American journalists from five publications today including the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time and Voice of America. The journalists will also not be allowed to report from Hong Kong:
Tom Freidman: "After ALL we've done for you!"
China instructed American journalists "whose press credentials are due to expire before the end of 2020" to "notify the Department of Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within four calendar days starting from today and hand back their press cards within ten calendar days."

It went on to specify that the American journalists now working in China "will not be allowed to continue working as journalists in the People’s Republic of China, including its Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions."

So is this a response to China’s frustration over being blamed for the coronavirus outbreak? The Times points out this back and forth has been building for several weeks and coronavirus was definitely part of it:
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Just had a horrible thought. If I'm right - and I sure hope I'm wrong - China will soon have a lot of anti-Covid immunoglobulin for passive immunization for sale or "aid" (strings attached).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-18 16:47  

#7  Are we sure that coronovirus crisis is over in China? Asking for a paranoid alternate personality.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-18 16:28  

#6  Can we here in the U.S. expel them too?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-03-18 14:55  

#5  *Smirk* No, no, no, those people are agents of the DNC and the Deep State and not the agents of the Trump Administration. When you PNG (persona non grata) someone you need to do it to the right person.
Posted by: magpie   2020-03-18 14:11  

#4  Is schadenfreude still a permissible reaction?
Posted by: AlanC   2020-03-18 07:49  

#3  Bloomberg not on the list.
Posted by: Omirt Jones2669   2020-03-18 07:08  

#2  NYT? fratricide!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-03-18 06:54  

#1  Y'know, just goes to show that no one is completely bad ...
Posted by: Lex   2020-03-18 02:21  

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