“We urge the Chinese government to immediately uphold its international commitments to respect freedom of expression, including for members of the press.”
The United States on Monday cut by nearly half the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work for Beijing’s state-run media in the US, vowing reciprocity after a crackdown in China.
“We urge the Chinese government to immediately uphold its international commitments to respect freedom of expression, including for members of the press,” Pompeo said in a statement. Chinese citizens who work for other media outlets in the US are not affected, the official said, and state-run media outlets will not be barred from hiring employees of other nationalities.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists criticized the US move, saying that the “dangerous cycle of tit-for-tat retaliation” could impede the flow of information in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.China on February 19 threw out three reporters from The Wall Street Journal — two US nationals and an Australian — in its harshest move against international media in years.
It said that China had also been reducing the time-frame in which journalists can stay, with at least 12 correspondents issued credentials for half a year or less, more than double the number from a year earlier. The organization most affected by Monday’s order will be the state news agency Xinhua, which will be allowed to keep 59 Chinese staff in the United States, according to a State Department official.
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