Beijing’s Expulsion of Reporter Deepens Self-Censorship Among Foreign Press in China: Analysts

The New York Times confirmed that its China-based correspondent was expelled in February.

A man reads a newspaper near a front page photo of Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a story about the conclusion of the Third Plenum, a key economic meeting, at a display board on a sidewalk in Beijing on July 19, 2024. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images

The Chinese regime’s expulsion of a New York Times reporter signals a severe clampdown on foreign press freedoms in China and will prompt Washington to launch tougher countermeasures against Beijing, analysts say.

China’s Foreign Ministry on June 1 accused the journalist of tricking people into unknowingly taking interviews, and said that led to the revocation of her residence permit.