Beijing: China has warned that it will take countermeasures after the US added four more Chinese media outlets to a list of organisations that should be considered foreign missions in the United States because of their ties to the government and ruling Communist Party.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian attacked the Trump administration’s move as yet another example of the US’s flagrant political suppression of the Chinese media, saying it would interfere with their reporting on the US and betray America’s commitment to freedom of the press.
We strongly urge the United States to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice, and immediately stop and correct this wrong practice that serves no one’s interest. Otherwise China will have to make the necessary legitimate response, Zhao said.
