Communist Party newspaper says retaliation could follow if US denies visas for Chinese reporters
Beijing — China could take aim at American journalists in Hong Kong, if the US does not renew visas for Chinese journalists, Global Times editor-in-chief Hu Xijin says.
The US state department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Global Times is a tabloid run by the People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party. Hu‘s tweets have become closely watched after accurately forecasting previous moves by China’s government. The Trump administration then ordered Chinese state-owned news outlets — including the Xinhua News Agency — to cut the size of their US-based staff, part of a broader response to Beijing’s restrictions on American journalists.
In 2018, Hong Kong denied a visa renewal for Victor Mallet of the Financial Times, following his hosting an event with a local independence activist at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club. It also refused entry to Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Some of the American reporters kicked out of China earlier this year were not allowed to go to Hong Kong.
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