China News Service, October 26. According to news from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on the 26th, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian answered reporters’ questions on China’s reciprocal countermeasures against the US’s additional six Chinese media as “foreign missions”.
Zhao Li insisted that in response, the Chinese side requested that six US media bureaus in China, including ABC, Los Angeles Times, Minnesota Public Radio, National Affairs Publishing Company, Newsweek, and Special News Service, be stationed in China on July 7. Within days, declare to the Chinese party all written materials on staff, financial affairs, operations, and real estate ownership in China.
A reporter asked: Last week, the United States announced the addition of six Chinese media as "foreign missions." A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that China will make a legitimate and necessary response.
How will China respond?
Zhao Lijian responded that in recent years, the U.S. government has imposed unreasonable restrictions on the normal news reporting activities of Chinese media organizations and personnel in the United States, unreasonably created difficulties, and continuously escalated discrimination and political repression against Chinese media.
Regarding the addition of the six Chinese media as "foreign missions" by the US this time, I have stated China's solemn position last week, demanding that the US change its course, correct its mistakes, and withdraw the six Chinese media as "foreign missions."
However, the United States has completely ignored China's legitimate and reasonable requests and solemn warnings, and insisted on escalating its political suppression and stigmatization of Chinese media organizations and personnel in the United States.
Zhao Lijian stated that in response, the Chinese side requested that six U.S. media bureaus, including the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Los Angeles Times, Minnesota Public Radio, National Affairs Publishing Company, Newsweek, and U.S. News Service, be stationed in China on July 7. Within days, declare to the Chinese party all written materials on staff, financial affairs, operations, and real estate ownership in China.
Zhao Lijian pointed out that it needs to be emphasized that the above-mentioned measures by the Chinese side are completely necessary and reciprocal countermeasures that the US is forced to carry out to unreasonably suppress Chinese media organizations in the United States, and are completely legitimate and reasonable defenses.
The U.S.’s relevant practices are specifically aimed at the Chinese media. They are based on Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice. They have severely damaged the reputation and image of the Chinese media, seriously affected the normal operation of the Chinese media in the United States, seriously interfered with the normal cultural exchanges between China and the United States, and exposed their self-proclaimed so-called " The hypocrisy of freedom of the press.
China urges the US to immediately change its course, correct its mistakes, and stop political suppression and unreasonable restrictions on the Chinese media.
If the United States insists on going its own way, adding mistakes to mistakes, China will definitely take further countermeasures.