China expelled a New York Times reporter after the president of Taiwan spoke at the newspaper’s DealBook event in December, reports Eliot Chen of The Wire China.
Chen reports, “In February, the Chinese government expelled New York Times correspondent Vivian Wang, according to six people familiar with the matter. Wang was one of two remaining Times correspondents in China until this year. Her expulsion is the first from a U.S. media outlet since 2020, and came after the newspaper invited Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te to its DealBook Summit in December.
“The Chinese authorities have escalated their retaliation against foreign media outlets that engage with Lai, denying another outlet, the news wire agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), visas for new reporters after it interviewed Lai in March, according to four people. Still, two others familiar with Wang’s expulsion suggest the DealBook interview was likely just a pretext to remove Wang, after Chinese officials had grown unhappy with her reporting.
“A spokesperson for The New York Times did not respond to requests for comment by email.”
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