The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China called the journalists' expulsion the 'most alarming' measure Chinese authorities have taken.
five Chinese state-run media organizations—Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily Corporation and Hai Tian Development USA—as foreign missions. The designation indicates that they are"substantially owned or effectively controlled" by a foreign government and requires them to share information about their personnel in the U.S. and their current property holdings with the Office of Foreign Missions.
Since 2013, nine journalists were"expelled or effectively expelled" from China, according to the FCCC, and in August, China declined to renew press credentials for Chun Han Wong, a reporter for the. The effective expulsion came after he wrote an article about Australia's law enforcement scrutinizing the activities of Ming Chai, a cousin of President Xi Jinping.
Melissa Chan, who was expelled from China in 2012 while working as a correspondent for Al Jazeera, posted on Twitter that the debate wasn't about whether the op-ed's title was racist, as China argued. She claimed China was waiting for a chance to act, so if it wasn't the"In 2012, it wasn't that I did anything particularly problematic.
Hereâs the thing. We can all debate whether itâs racist to use âsick man of Asia.â Thing everyone must understand is that if it wasnât this WSJ opinion headline, it would have been something else in 2020. China was going to do something, and just needed to wait for a chance.While journalists have been forced to leave China, Wednesday's decision was precedent-setting.
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