The US has warned China against interfering with American journalists working in Hong Kong, as a row between the two countries escalated.
The two sides have expelled each other’s reporters in tit-for-tat moves over recent months as they trade barbs over press freedom and the coronavirus pandemic, with US President Donald Trump threatening to impose fresh trade tariffs.
“No foreign government, organization, or individual has the right to interfere,” foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters at a regular press briefing. The headline, “China is the Real Sick Man of Asia”, was on an opinion piece that the three journalists were not involved in writing. China’s foreign ministry also made the landmark announcement that these journalists would not be allowed to work in Hong Kong, even though the financial hub is nominally in charge of its own immigration policies.
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