Australia evacuates two journalists from China amid rising tensions.
, a professional association, said Tuesday the effort to keep foreign journalists in China against their will, marked a significant escalation of the government's"assault on media freedoms." It criticized the"use of foreign journalists as pawns in wider diplomatic disputes."
Seventeen foreign journalists have been expelled from China in the first half of 2020, according to the association, with no accredited foreign journalist now remaining in the country for an Australian news outlet. At least five journalists at U.S. news organizations have also been affected in recent days, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN and Bloomberg.
"It is the U.S. that has been escalating political repression of Chinese news outlets," China's Foreign Ministry spokespersonsaid on Twitter on Monday."If U.S. does care about its journalists, it should extend visas for Chinese journalists." Press card renewals for CNN and other U.S. media journalists were"being processed," Zhao said on Twitter, adding that"their reporting and life in China will not be affected in any way."
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