US Secretary of State Urges China to Be Fairer Toward Media

US Secretary of State Urges China to Be Fairer Toward Media
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks to the media at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2020. Yuri Gripas/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Mar. 5 called on Beijing to take a fairer approach toward American and other foreign media working in China, deepening a dispute between the two countries over the treatment of the news media.

“Where the Chinese Communist Party has imposed increasingly harsh surveillance, harassment and intimidation on our independent and world-class journalists, we will respond to achieve reciprocity,” Pompeo said.