Whats great about China kicking out the American journalists working at the NYT, Wapo, etc isn't simply that they are being shown the boot. Afterall, they can simply get around this by hiring Canadians, Australians, or Brits to replace them, at least for roles that don't require
regular contact with their CIA handlers, at least I suppose they would want to keep that particular detail for citizens only. Whats awesome is that they are all their employees now have to register as agents of a foreign government, which is ipso facto true.
The "Free Press" is a socio-political constructed term for what is essentially the agitprop organs of America's deep state. It's employees, editors, etc all carefully scoured for adherence to the ideology of America's Liberal Empire. If you don't go to the right schools and
join the right networks and believe the right ideology, you aren't getting in and are therefor not "Free Press". The difference between the "Free Press" and the "State Press" is simply liberalism's parlor game of 2 degrees of separation, power masquerading as something other than
what it actually is. The carefully masked deceit serves the purpose of obscuring who wields power and the mechanisms of said control. The CCP understands this, most Chinese are cynical enough to intuitively understand this, even the Chinese students exposed to America's system
understand this. The only people who don't are the puppets whose continued status and (poorly paid) livelihoods depend on this.
