Hua Chunying makes representations to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on US restrictions on the number of Chinese media reporters in the United States

Hua Chunying, Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has made representations to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on the restrictions on the number of Chinese media reporters in the United States.

On March 3, 2020, Hua Chunying, the director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was invited to make solemn representations to the head of the US Embassy in China regarding the US State Department's announcement to limit the number of Chinese media reporters in the United States.

Hua Chunying said that the U.S. State Department's deadline to require Chinese media in the United States to significantly reduce the number of journalists is "actual deportation" of Chinese media reporters. It is groundless and unreasonable. It is the US political suppression based on Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice. Exposes the hypocrisy of the so-called "freedom of the press", as well as the naked "double standards" and hegemonic bullying. China firmly opposes this and strongly reprimands it.

Hua Chunying pointed out that Chinese media reporters in the United States strictly abide by US laws and regulations, adhere to journalistic professional ethics, and adhere to the principles of objectivity, fairness, truth, and accuracy in carrying out news reporting in the United States. For a long time, the United States has adopted a discriminatory approach to Chinese media journalists' visas to the United States. Since 2018, 21 Chinese journalists have refused visas to the United States for various reasons. From requiring Chinese media to register as "foreign agents", to listing five Chinese media as "foreign missions", and in the name of the so-called restricted number, in fact "deporting" Chinese media reporters in the United States, the United States has escalated its efforts to China. Media crackdowns have severely disrupted Chinese media's normal reporting activities in the United States and severely disrupted normal humanities exchanges between the two countries. The United States opened its mouths and said that it was equal, but it was essentially prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion from the Chinese media. China urges the United States to immediately change its course and correct its mistakes. China reserves the right to respond and take measures.