In its editorial, the Global Times slammed the embassy’s “brutal interference in (its) independent reporting”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BEIJING – The Global Times, a hawkish Chinese state media tabloid, on Monday criticised a letter of protest sent to it by South Korea’s embassy in China, the latest public spat amid worsening ties between the Asian neighbours.
The articles “use sensational, provocative and inappropriate vocabulary to denigrate not only our leader but also the Korean government’s foreign policy,” the letter said. It is rare for foreign embassies stationed in China to publicly criticise the reporting of Chinese state media outlets.The Global Times, known for its nationalist rhetoric, has repeatedly attacked South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol for “blindly following the US” after his visit there in late April, and accused Seoul of bringing further tension to the Korean Peninsula due to its growing security ties with Japan and the US.
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