{"id":14688,"date":"2020-02-19T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/china-bars-wall-street-journal-reporters-over-derogatory-column"},"modified":"2020-02-20T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:37:15","slug":"china-to-expel-wsj-journalists-over-derogatory-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14688","title":{"rendered":"China to expel WSJ journalists over &#8216;malicious&rsquo; coronavirus column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three journalists told to leave within five days after paper declined to apologise for opinion piece<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/19\/coronavirus-outbreak-updates-coronavirus-live-updates-hubei-deaths-china-wuhan-outbreak-japan-diamond-princess-china-business-death-toll-latest-news\">Coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China is expelling three Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporters from the country, a move with no recent precedent, marking a sharp escalation in pressure on foreign media in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The expulsions come amid a domestic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/dissent-becomes-another-victim-of-coronavirus-as-china-cracks-down\">crackdown on freedom of speech<\/a> as China battles the coronavirus epidemic, and the day after Washington announced it would<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/feb\/18\/us-chinese-media-propaganda-state-department\"> tighten controls<\/a> on Chinese state-owned media operations in America.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/19\/china-bars-wall-street-journal-reporters-over-derogatory-column\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three journalists told to leave within five days after paper declined to apologise for opinion pieceCoronavirus updates \u2013 liveChina is expelling three Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporters from the country, a move with no recent precedent, marking a shar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,238,671,672,673,670,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-us-press-and-publishing","category-wall-street-journal","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688\/revisions\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}