{"id":16125,"date":"2020-03-20T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/20\/increasingly-powerful-xis-china-believes-it-no-longer-needs-washington-or-its-foreign-reporters"},"modified":"2020-03-20T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:35:32","slug":"increasingly-powerful-xis-china-thinks-it-no-longer-needs-washington-or-its-foreign-reporters-richard-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16125","title":{"rendered":"Increasingly powerful, Xi&#8217;s China thinks it no longer needs Washington &ndash; or its foreign reporters | Richard McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling party and its leaders have long wanted to avoid the scrutiny of the foreign press. The expulsions show Beijing is confident in its growing might<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s decision to throw out correspondents from America\u2019s most influential newspapers is, on one level, just part of a muscular tit-for-tat between the US and China over how to manage journalists stationed in each country.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement that caught the newspapers by surprise, the Foreign Ministry said US journalists at the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post whose press cards ran out this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/mar\/18\/us-media-accuse-china-of-cold-war-mentality-after-move-to-expel-journalists\">would be expelled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2020\/mar\/20\/increasingly-powerful-xis-china-believes-it-no-longer-needs-washington-or-its-foreign-reporters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling party and its leaders have long wanted to avoid the scrutiny of the foreign press. The expulsions show Beijing is confident in its growing mightBeijing\u2019s decision to throw out correspondents from America\u2019s most influential newspapers is, on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"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":[41,50,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-us-news","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\/16125","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\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16126,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16125\/revisions\/16126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}