China bars Wall Street Journal reporters over `derogatory´ column
(The Guardian China)

Credentials of three journalists revoked after paper declines to apologise for opinion pieceChina has revoked the press credentials of three journalists from the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper declined to apologise for a column that called China the `real sick man of Asia`, the foreign ministry has said.Spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily briefing on Wednesday that Beijing made several representations to the paper over the column, which China criticised as racist and denigrating its efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic, but that the paper had failed to apologise or investigate those responsible. Continue reading...