But is a retaliation against a country that does not value a free press a good idea?
Administration officials said the visa caps were meant to establish “more reciprocity” with China in how the countries treat journalists. They argued that Chinese state media employees in the United States still operate unencumbered, working and publishing as they please, while American journalists in China face harassment, intimidation and the threat of expulsion.
China hawks have long advocated retaliation against state media operating in America. Some have suggested the administration’s actions do not go far enough in sending a message to Beijing. President Donald Trump could threaten to blunt China’s propaganda drive in America more directly, by taking aim at the broadcasts of’s reports to be published as inserts into American newspapers.
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