China reciprocates and imposes new restrictions on US media

Beijing-Sana

China today imposed new restrictions on US media operating inside its territory in response to similar measures taken by the United States last week in a step it considered "necessary and reciprocal."

"China is asking the branches of the American Broadcasting Corporation, Los Angeles Times, Minnesota Public Radio, the Office of National Affairs, Newsweek and Fisher Story News, which is based in China, to announce in written form the information," the Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Li Jian as saying. On behalf of its employees, financing, operation and real estate in China within seven days starting from today, ”indicating that in recent years Washington has imposed“ unjustified restrictions ”on Chinese media agencies and employees in the United States and made things difficult for their regular journalistic duties and exposed them to increasing discrimination and oppression motivated by political motives. .

Zhao called on the United States to immediately change its course, lift the damage and stop its political repression and arbitrary restrictions on Chinese media institutions, the latest of which was last week, classifying six new Chinese media outlets as “foreign missions,” noting that America completely ignored China's legitimate and reasonable demand and its official warning and intensified Insistently "political repression".

Zhao explained that what the United States has done is targeting Chinese media institutions exclusively, and it is driven by the Cold War mentality and ideological bias. Pointing out that the above-mentioned Chinese measures are "absolutely necessary, legitimate and justified in self-defense."