CHINA AND US COLD WAR MENTALITY
China and United States standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leave. China will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country and an escalation of the showdown over the press between Washington and Beijing. The decision announced just after midnight Beijing time, requires US citizens working for the three major media to halt reporting and hand in their press cards within 10 days, if their credential expire before the end of 2020. China usually gives journalists only 12 month visas and press cards, so the measure is likely to impact most correspondents, it will decimate some of the biggest newsrooms in China and force reporters with decades of experience cove...