The United States on Monday cut by nearly half the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work for Beijing’s state-run media in the US, vowing reciprocity after a crackdown in China.
The move comes two weeks after China expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters, although the United States said its decision was based on leveling numbers between the countries rather than retaliating over content.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that China had “imposed increasingly harsh surveillance, harassment and intimidation against American and other foreign journalists operating in China.”
Source: Guardian Newsapaper
