China’s Global Times said India was the first to use the visa as a weapon to hinder the presence of each other’s media. In fact, it was China that renewed this tit-for-tat spat. Both countries are equally at fault in this war over press.
, a media rights watchdog, identified the two Indian journalists as Ananth Krishnan, a Beijing-based correspondent for the English-language newspaper, and Anshuman Mishra, Beijing-based representative of Indian state broadcaster Prasar Bharati.at the time the move was an appropriate response to “India’s unfair and discriminatory treatment of Chinese journalists.
Meanwhile, India had four journalists based in China at the beginning of this year, but at least two haven’t been issued visas to return to Beijing. A third was told his accreditation had been revoked, but he’s still in China.Ananth Krishnan tweeted on May 31: “We’re down to only one accredited Indian reporter in Beijing — and unfortunately, probably zero soon.”
Neither India nor China is a staunch defender of press freedom within their own borders. In the Reporters Without Borders’This is not the first time China has used visa restrictions against foreign press for political ends.reporter who had written a story about the activities of one of President Xi Jinping’s cousins in Australia.
In February 2020, China expelled three of its reporters after the newspaper ran an opinion piece headlined “According to the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, in the first half of 2020, China expelled at least 18 foreign journalists working for
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