Washington will cap the number of US-based employees of Chinese media outlets at 100 from 160 currently.
The United States on Monday said it was slashing the number of Chinese nationals permitted to work at the US offices of major Chinese state-owned media outlets to retaliate against Beijing’s “long-standing intimidation and harassment of journalists.”
“For years, the government of the People’s Republic of China has imposed increasingly harsh surveillance, harassment, and intimidation against American and other foreign journalists operating in China,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.case nor the content the Chinese outlets in question produced, senior State Department officials told reporters, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The four outlets were among five designated by the United States as foreign embassies earlier this month, as a first step of this move.Tensions between the two superpowers have escalated since President Donald Trump came to office three years ago, with disputes over issues ranging from trade to accusations of Chinese spying in the United States and to US support for Taiwan.
“It is our hope that this action will spur Beijing to adopt a more fair and reciprocal approach to US and other foreign press in China,” Pompeo said, while State Department officials said Washington was ready to take further action if Beijing retaliated.
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