Chinese authorities have declined to renew the press credentials of a Beijing-based Wall Street Journal reporter, effectively expelling a journalist who extensively covered President Xi Jinping and Communist Party politics. The de facto expulsion Friday of Singaporean reporter Chun Han Wong comes one
BEIJING — Chinese authorities have declined to renew the press credentials of a Beijing-based Wall Street Journal reporter, effectively expelling a journalist who extensively covered President Xi Jinping and Communist Party politics.
"We resolutely oppose certain foreign journalists' evil intention to smear and attack China," China's foreign ministry said in a faxed response to questions about Wong's status.Dow Jones, the WSJ's parent company, said in a statement that authorities declined to renew Wong's press credentials. The statement said the company is looking into the matter but did not elaborate. Wong, 33, who has been reporting in China since 2014, declined to comment.
The wealth of Communist Party leaders and their families has long been a taboo subject. Both The New York Times and Bloomberg encountered visa troubles after they reported on the wealth of the families of then-Premier Wen Jiabao and Xi in 2012. Since Xi took power that year, media outlets and various parts of civil society in China have faced tightening restrictions.
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