This is China's largest expulsion of foreign correspondents since 1989, and the first expulsion at all since 1998. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang explained the expulsion came soon after the WSJ refused a need to 'make an official apology and hold the persons included accountable.' The expulsions come after the Trump administration on Tuesday designated 5 condition-operate Chinese information retailers that function in the United States as "overseas missions," necessitating them to sign up their houses and staff members in the U.S. China explained it reserves the appropriate to answer to what it known as a mistaken plan. The headline on the Journal’s opinion column referred to the current virus outbreak in China and identified as the nation the "Actual Sick Guy of Asia."
>China’s Foreign Ministry said the move Wednesday was punishment for a recent opinion piece published by the Journal.
>Deputy Bureau Chief Josh Chin and reporter Chao Deng, both U.S. nationals, as well as reporter Philip Wen, an Australian national, have been ordered to leave the country within five days, said Jonathan Cheng, the Journal’s China bureau chief.
>The expulsions by China’s Foreign Ministry followed widespread public anger at the headline on the Feb. 3 opinion piece, which referred to China as “the real sick man of Asia.” The ministry and state-media outlets had repeatedly called attention to the headline in statements and posts on social media and had threatened unspecified consequences.
>“Regrettably, what the WSJ has done so far is nothing but parrying and dodging its responsibility,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in a daily news briefing Wednesday. “The Chinese people do not welcome those media that speak racially discriminatory language and maliciously slander and attack China.”
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