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Coronavirus: China expels Wall Street Journal journalists for article it deemed racist
19 February 2020
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Image caption The Wall Street Journal said the journalists were ordered to leave China in five days China has ordered three foreign journalists of the Wall Street Journal to leave the country over an opinion piece it said was "racist".
The article published on 3 February criticised the country's response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The Chinese foreign ministry said it had asked the newspaper to apologise several times but it had declined.
The newspaper said the journalists - who had not written the opinion piece - were given five days to leave China.
China's decision came a day after the US State Department tightened rules on Chinese state media organisations operating in the US, classifying them as foreign missions.
It told five outlets including state-run Xinhua news agency and the China Global Television Network that they had to submit lists of all employees, even though there would be no restriction on their reporting.
The WSJ article called the authorities' initial response "secretive and self-serving" and said global confidence in China had been "shaken".
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the article was "racist" and "denigrated" China's efforts to combat the outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people in the country. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51555420)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51558310
19 February 2020
Related Topics
Coronavirus outbreak (https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cyz0z8w0ydwt/coronavirus-outbreak)
Image caption The Wall Street Journal said the journalists were ordered to leave China in five days China has ordered three foreign journalists of the Wall Street Journal to leave the country over an opinion piece it said was "racist".
The article published on 3 February criticised the country's response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The Chinese foreign ministry said it had asked the newspaper to apologise several times but it had declined.
The newspaper said the journalists - who had not written the opinion piece - were given five days to leave China.
China's decision came a day after the US State Department tightened rules on Chinese state media organisations operating in the US, classifying them as foreign missions.
It told five outlets including state-run Xinhua news agency and the China Global Television Network that they had to submit lists of all employees, even though there would be no restriction on their reporting.
The WSJ article called the authorities' initial response "secretive and self-serving" and said global confidence in China had been "shaken".
China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the article was "racist" and "denigrated" China's efforts to combat the outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people in the country. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51555420)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51558310