US condemns China's expulsion of US journalists

US President Donald Trump condemned China’s decision to expel American journalists from three major US newspapers.
On Tuesday, China’s foreign ministry told 13 journalists from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post whose press credentials expire in 2020 that they will have 10 days to surrender their press cards, and will no longer be allowed to work in mainland China, Hong Kong or Macau.
“I’m not happy to see it. I have my own disputes with all three of those media groups — I think you know that very well — but I don’t like seeing that at all”, Trump said on Wednesday.
China said that the move was a response to Washington’s actions. Last month, due to propaganda concerns, the US designated as foreign missions five Chinese state media organizations – the Xinhua news agency, the China Global Television Network, China Radio International, the distributors of the official People’s Daily and English-language China Daily.
“We reject ideological bias against China, reject fake news made in the name of press freedom, reject breaches of ethics in journalism”, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying tweeted.
However, last week, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman tweeted a conspiracy theory that the US military brought the illness to Wuhan, where the virus first emerged.
Last month, China’s government revoked the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters, after it said the Journal refused to apologize for a “racially discriminatory” op-ed that questioned China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.