Under a new blow to the escalating information war between Washington and Beijing came China Central television (China Central Television), China news service (China News Service) and daily newspaper “Renmin Zhibao” and the Global Times.
“the Decision to allocate company data is not based on the content they produce or restrict their publication in the United States. It simply States who they are”, said the official representative of US State Department. According to American foreign Ministry, the activities of these media is completely “controlled by the government of China.”
Previously, Washington has applied sanctions to working in America, Chinese journalists, and the number of accredited U.S. employees of leading publications, news agencies and TV channels of the PRC was reduced from 40 percent. In February, this decision applied to the Xinhua news Agency, China radio International publishing group, China Daily and China television network Global Television Network. This has resulted in the virtual expulsion of several dozen Chinese correspondents.
In China’s foreign Ministry criticized the actions of U.S. authorities, calling them “political persecution in the spirit of thinking during the cold war”. In addition, in response, Beijing announced the removal from the country working in the territory of China of American nationals in the American press. According to the Chinese side decision, in March, correspondents of The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal has surrendered their journalistic accreditation. In addition, a “mirror response” to Beijing, in addition to these Newspapers, touched radio Voice of America Time magazine – these publications were treated by the Chinese government as “foreign missions” and was obliged to inform the Chinese authorities about their staff, funding and ownership in China.
Note that the increasingly aggressive actions of Washington against Beijing interpreted by many commentators as preparing US for long-term and open confrontation with China in the spirit of a new cold war. The current administration of Donald trump in recent months have embarked on the open use of political, economic, technological, and informational levers of pressure on China to undermine the potential of his opponent in the geopolitical arena, say Chinese media.
