{"id":15980,"date":"2020-03-18T03:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/china-to-expel-more-us-journalists-in-latest-tit-for-tat-move"},"modified":"2020-03-18T03:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T18:39:35","slug":"china-us-standoff-escalates-as-beijing-expels-major-us-media-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15980","title":{"rendered":"China-US standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leave<\/p>\n<p>China will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country \u2013 and an escalation of the showdown over the press between Washington and Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, announced just after midnight Beijing time, requires US citizens working for the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to halt reporting and hand in their press cards within 10 days, if their credentials expire before the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/17\/china-to-expel-more-us-journalists-in-latest-tit-for-tat-move\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leaveChina will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country \u2013 and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,238,671,672,54,1251,47,670,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-press-freedom","category-time-magazine","category-us-news","category-wall-street-journal","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15981,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15980\/revisions\/15981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}