--- title: "China Bans Journalists From Major US Newspapers" description: "All American journalists working for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Washington Post have been expelled from China." date: "2020-03-17" modified: "2020-03-17" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/china-bans-journalists-nyt-wsj" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "china" - "journalism" - "the digest" - "USA" --- # China Bans Journalists From Major US Newspapers ![All American journalists working for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Washington Post have been expelled from China.]() *\Image: Victor Tangermann\* ## Escalating Tensions All American journalists working for *The Wall Street Journal*, *The New York Times*, and the *Washington Post* have been expelled from China, according to a Tuesday announcement by China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chinese authorities also demanded that they'd like to know exactly what's going on at these newspapers, as well as at the *Voice of America* and *TIME* magazine's operations, as [*The New York Times* reports](). ## Retaliation On March 3, the Trump administration set a limit on the number of Chinese citizens who could work in the US for five specific state-controlled Chinese news organizations to 100. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the move was to "establish a long-overdue level playing field," as [*NYT* reported]() at the time. According to the statement, today's news is a direct retaliation to this decision. Or as the Chinese government put it, the move is "in response to the significant reduction in the United States and the actual deportation of employees of Chinese media agencies in the United States." ## Expelled American journalists have only "ten calendar days" to "hand back their press cards" if they're "due to expire before the end of 2020." Journalists currently in China "will not be allowed to continue working as journalists in the People’s Republic of China, including its Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions." China has been increasingly harassing foreign journalists by cutting the length of their visas. "Chinese authorities are using visas as weapons against the foreign press like never before, expanding their deployment of a longtime intimidation tactic as working conditions for foreign journalists in China severely deteriorated in 2019," a new report by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club said, as quoted by *NYT*. China's relationship with the media, generally, is a notoriously tense one: In a global ranking of 180 countries' press freedoms, China currently ranks 177th. The United States? 48. **READ MORE:** [China Announces That It Will Expel American Journalists]() \[*The New York Times*\] **More on China:** *[TikTok Tried to Suppress Videos by Users It Deemed Ugly, Poor]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()