BEIJING—The European Union ambassador to China said on May 7 it was “regrettable” that part of an opinion piece co-authored by 27 European ambassadors and published in the official China Daily had been removed before publication.
A comparison between the original op-ed uploaded onto the EU embassy website and the one published on Tuesday by the China Daily showed that in a sentence beginning, “But the outbreak of the coronavirus,” the words that followed—“in China, and its subsequent spread to the rest of the world over the past three months"—were removed.
