China revokes three Wall Street Journal reporters' credentials
Published Date: 2/19/2020
Source: news.yahoo.com
China has revoked the press credentials of three journalists of the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper declined to apologize for a column with a headline calling China the "real sick man of Asia", the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing made "stern representations" to the paper over the Feb. 3 column, which China criticized as racist and denigrating its efforts to combat a coronavirus epidemic, but the paper had failed to apologize or investigate those responsible. "The Chinese people do not welcome media that publish racist statements and maliciously attack China," Geng told a daily briefing.