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Breaking News: China on Wednesday said it would revoke the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters working in mainland China, in a significant escalation of Beijing’s pressure on the foreign news media nyti.ms/2V2mswv
A spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the journalists' credentials would be revoked in retaliation for a headline of an essay that ran in The Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages, which read, “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia” nyti.ms/2HCRYt6
The move comes less than one day after American officials in Washington said they would treat five government-controlled Chinese news organizations as foreign government functionaries nyti.ms/2P5kOqk
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