https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg...
https://img.piri.net/mnresize/840/-/resim/imagecrop/2020/03/...
(I didn't downvote you. As far as I'm concerned, CNN is frequently sloppy and deserves criticism for that.)
All of those photos would show up for "coronavirus" regardless of the context. It's just a...non-issue?
https://www.google.com/search?q=coronavirus+prison&tbm=isch&...
Source?
Here's a timeline for those who haven't followed this:
Feb 3rd: WSJ publishes opinion piece titled "China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia"
Feb 19th: China expels three China-based WSJ reporters
March 2nd: America limits journalists from Chinese state media from 160 to 100
No.
There are thousands and thousands of journalists working for foreign governments, friendly and hostile, in the United States. Some hostile foreign governments even operate domestic broadcasting operations in America. (China, Russia, etc...)
The worst thing that's ever been done in recent memory is requiring those operations to register as foreign agents. And I think at one time there was a move to limit the Kremlin's cadre to something like 1,000 people. But I might be remembering that part wrong.
“Our goal is reciprocity. As we have done in other areas of the U.S.-China relationship, we seek to establish a long-overdue level playing field,” Pompeo said in a statement to CNBC about the cap. “It is our hope that this action will spur Beijing to adopt a more fair and reciprocal approach to U.S. and other foreign press in China.”
Reciprocity = you limit our journalist we'll limit yours.
I expect a ban on those 100 remaining Chinese state media journalists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Asia
The phrase reminds any Chinese about China's darkest history in 500 years.
It's widely believed the expelling of the three WSJ report was retaliation to that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmia#...
Suppression of the press is unfortunately very effective in the short term. Historians may eventually uncover the truth but it will be far too late.
As Frank Herbert said: "History is written by historians"
I don't believe this is true, I'm just pointing out we'd have no way of knowing.
It's theoretically impossible to know. This is just a fun thought exercise though, not trying to have a real argument.
It may not explicitly violate the letter of the 1st Amendment, but it certainly violates its spirit, not to mention invites reciprocal action like this that only deepens the fog of war over our most dangerous adversary power.
There are many, many legitimate ways to punish foreign governments, but the expulsion of reporters should never be among them, unless we are at war with that government.
"But China did it first!" Well, then we should highlight how outrageous and unacceptable that behavior is, and sanction them some other way. Not reciprocate.
I'm all for calling out a lot of the issues on both sides of the ocean on this one, even if I do feel that the actions of one country are far worse than the other. Two wrongs do not make a right.
The U.S. should never have allowed more than half of any given industry (especially medicine and other essential infrastructure) to be produced overseas to begin with. The trade war was bound to happen, still, civility should always remain at the table.
You're falling squarely into the trap that I believe China plays so frequently: the belief that every other group of people shares a compatible value system and culture and any disagreement can be resolved with diplomacy, but never force.
To be frank, the Chinese view us as dumb by setting restrictions on ourselves, in an effort to inspire them to do similar self-restraint measures.
This methodology is flawed and outdated, the Chinese are not the Russians.
RT is a full on naked propaganda machine and troll farm.
Al Jazeera is not carried by most US providers because they ran out of cash and mostly went online.
Naaaaah... impossible.
That's what free press means. China has no tolerance for truth if it collides with the CCP image.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
If this epidemic continues, we're going to do less "please don't" and more "we've banned". I don't mean the coronavirus— I mean the epidemic of violating HN's guidelines. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here.
The vast majority of the community come here for curious conversation, not to hear people bashing each other and their countries in the same few ways over and over again. That's not only nasty, it's tedious. Please take it elsewhere.
More explanation in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22605365
Nothing is surprising since they banned Zedd from China simply for liking a South Park tweet, he's a very popular (and harmlessly generic) pop musician:
The subtle shift in confidence that this action implies is that China is confident in itself after "beating" the virus while the west is struggling.
A "media war" between China and the US might be worse than a trade war. While a trade war is just about numbers, this will be about ideology and there will be no middle ground.
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/t1...
Seems this is part of an ongoing diplomatic spat.
EDIT: FYI, couldn't read the article due to a paywall, did a search, found out some about the history. Thought this added information to the conversation. Yes, this is clearly propaganda, but I still thought it was interesting. You're all of age, you can read this sort of propaganda without being harmed.
