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Quid pro quo – White House expels journalists working for Chinese state media | United States
FIFTY YEARS there is a New York correspondent for Pravda, spokesman for the Soviet Communist Party, was expelled. It was in retaliation for the expulsion from Moscow of a correspondent from Time magazine, after a cover that had displeased Politburo. Months later, Newsweek journalist was expelled from Moscow. America retaliated by expelling a correspondent from Tass, the Soviet news agency. The U.S. government has not played this game since the Cold War, but it is now resuming, with a different opponent.
On March 2, less than two weeks after China expelled three journalists for the Wall Street newspaper, the State Department has announced that it has a cap of 100 on the number of Chinese citizens who could be employed in America for five media organizations belonging to the Communist Party and the State, one reduction from their current total of 160. The ceiling, in effect since March 13, means that up to 60 Chinese nationals will be forced to leave, a diplomatic coup that adds new tension to the relationship.
The expulsion of journalists from China came a day after the Trump administration designated the five state and party-owned media as foreign missions of the Chinese government, to reflect their function in as propaganda tools, officials said, as opposed to independent news outlets. The five are: Xinhua, CGTN, China Daily, China Radio International and the distribution branch of Peoples Daily, the mouth of the party.
Administration officials said the visa ceilings were intended to establish greater reciprocity with China in the way countries treat journalists. (American news agencies in mainland China employ about 75 non-Chinese citizens, including Americans.) They argued that employees of Chinese state media in the United States still operate freely, work and publish at their guise (or that of their employers), while American journalists in China face harassment, intimidation and the threat of expulsion.
The expulsion of Wall Street newspaper journalists came to punish a headline in the opinion pages of newspapers which described China as the sick man of Asia. But journalists also displeased Beijing authorities by working on stories related to Xi Jinping, President of China, and the internment of more than one million people in Xinjiang, mostly Uighur Muslims . The Foreign Correspondents Club of China, in an investigation published on March 2, said that since 2013, the Chinese government has expelled or refused to renew visas for nine journalists and has imposed stricter leashes on foreign journalists in the form of short term which must be renewed frequently. More than 80% of the foreign correspondents questioned declared having suffered interference, harassment or violence while working.
Chinese hawks have long advocated retaliation against state media operating in America. Some have suggested that the actions of administrations do not go far enough in sending a message to Beijing. President Donald Trump could threaten to more directly blunt China's propaganda campaign in America, by targeting broadcasts CGTN, or the practice of paying for China Dailys the reports will be published as inserts in American newspapers. This would be in line with the Trump administrations' argument that the Chinese employees concerned are not journalists but propaganda workers like those in Pravda and Tass.
Press freedom advocates have argued that instead America should lead by example as an open society. Increasing the cost to China, albeit marginally, of ill-treatment of foreign journalists, may seem like a good idea. The problem for America is that, while playing this game, the side that cares about press freedom is disadvantaged by the one who does not. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying hinted in a tweet on March 3 that reciprocity would mean tighter visa restrictions for media in the Americas, including perhaps single-entry visas that require journalists to reapply for entry every time they leave the country. Now the WE started the game, she writes, lets play.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the title "Quid pro quo"
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