Paul Mozur & Josh Chin: Journalists in the Crossfire

• Wednesday, June 3, 2020
• 10:00 to 11:30 AM

Josh Chin and Paul Mozur:  Journalists in the Crossfire

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China has expelled at least 16 foreign journalists this year, by far the most since the country began its “opening and reform” era in 1978. Most are Americans, and all are from U.S. news organizations. The United States, meanwhile, has declared five Chinese media organizations to be “foreign missions” of their government and ordered them to reduce their staff of Chinese nationals by a combined total of 60. It has put most Chinese reporters in the United States on 90-day renewable visas.

These rapid-fire U.S.-China tit-for-tat moves against journalists have no precedent. Why are both governments targeting journalists, and how might this effect the quality of information that decision-makers on each side are able to obtain about the other? Could it accelerate the already rapid deterioration of U.S.-China relations? How can journalists caught in the middle just do their job?

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