Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China: The US should immediately stop political discrimination and unreasonable suppression of Chinese media and journalists
China News Agency, Beijing, August 7 (Reporter Zhang Ziyang) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in Beijing on the 7th that the United States should immediately correct its mistakes and stop political discrimination and unreasonable suppression of Chinese media and journalists. If the US insists on going its own way, adding mistakes to mistakes, China can only be forced to make necessary and legitimate responses and firmly safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.
At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: Is there any new progress in the visa extension of Chinese journalists in the United States? In addition, the Hong Kong Foreign Press Association issued a statement on the 6th, calling on the Chinese and American governments not to use journalist visas as a weapon for handling international disputes. What's your opinion?
Wang Wenbin emphasized that the facts, latitudes, latitudes, right and wrong are very clear about what happened in the Chinese and American media fields. It was the US's unreasonable provocation first, and the relevant measures taken by China were completely necessary reciprocal countermeasures against the US's unreasonable suppression of Chinese media agencies in the US, and they were completely legitimate and reasonable defenses. The US continues to escalate its suppression of Chinese media, from registering as a "foreign agent" to being listed as a "foreign mission"; from denying visas for more than 20 Chinese journalists to expelling Chinese media reporters in the United States in disguise, and now discriminates The sexual visa restriction measures restrict the visas of all Chinese media reporters stationed in the United States, including those who are stationed to the United Nations, within 3 months, causing great interference and inconvenience to the normal work of the Chinese media.
Wang Wenbin said that the United States should immediately correct its mistakes, stop political discrimination and unreasonable suppression of Chinese media and journalists, and ensure that the legal rights and interests of Chinese journalists in the United States such as their personal safety, property, and freedom of interviews are not violated, and normal interview work is not affected. If the US insists on going its own way, adding mistakes to mistakes, China can only be forced to make necessary and legitimate responses and firmly safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.
"I want to emphasize that China's basic national policy of adhering to opening up to the outside world has not changed and will not change." Wang Wenbin said that China always welcomes media from all over the world, including the US media, to engage in reporting work in China in accordance with laws and regulations. To provide convenience and assistance. (Finish)