Special envoy to Beijing
Perfume of cold war, between the two first world powers, by time of coronavirus. At a time when the pandemic is raging, Communist China has raised its voice brutally against the United States by announcing on Tuesday the expulsion of at least thirteen correspondents from the main American media working in China, including the New York Times , and the Washington Post , against a backdrop of controversy over the origin of the virus. Beijing has abruptly canceled the accreditations of journalists of American nationality working for five organizations, including also the Wall Street Journal , Time magazine, and the agency Voice of America, the Foreign Ministry announced in a concise statement.
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Reporters are ordered to leave the Middle Kingdom within ten days and are even banned from settling in Hong Kong, a traditional base for foreign media coverage of the region, an unprecedented ban. Beijing presents these drastic measures
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