Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the Journal op-ed — titled 'China is the Real Sick Man of Asia' — had a 'racially discriminatory' and 'sensational' headline
to leave the country over what it deemed a racist headline, in one of the harshest moves against foreign media in years.
The Journal reported that deputy bureau chief Josh Chin and reporter Chao Deng, both US nationals, as well as reporter Philip Wen, an Australian, had been ordered to leave the country in five days.‘s news section, which is separate from editorials and op-eds. The new coronavirus epidemic has killed over 2,000 people in China and infected more than 74 000, and has spread to at least two dozen countries around the world.Global Times‘s remarks “sound like gloating, and they disgust Chinese people,” it said.
“The action taken against The Journal correspondents is an extreme and obvious attempt by the Chinese authorities to intimidate foreign news organisations by taking retribution against their China-based correspondents,” the FCCC said in a statement. Prior to her expulsion, she had reported extensively from the northwest region of Xinjiang, where China has rounded up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in internment camps.
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