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Date:\ March 29, 2020
By: Ralph Jennings/
Wall Street Journal China Bureau Chief Jonathan Cheng, left, poses for a photo with Journal reporters, from left, Julie Wernau, Stephanie Yang, and Stu Woo before their departure at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Saturday, March 28, 2020. The publishers of three major American newspapers wrote an open letter on Tuesday asking China to reverse its recent decision to expel many of their correspondents working in the country. China last week expelled more than a dozen American journalists working for the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post in what is believed to be the largest expulsion of foreign journalists from China since at least the 1960s. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
TAIPEI – Taiwan’s invitation to American journalists harassed by China to locate here instead would free them from government pressure but distance them from Asia’s hub for international news.
Foreign minister Joseph Wu tweeted the invitation Saturday. He mentioned three media organizations whose reporters had been thrown out of China, apparently in response to U.S. curbs against journalists working for state-run Chinese media in the United States.
“He said as that as New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists face intensifying hostility in China, I would like to welcome you to be stationed in Taiwan, a country that’s a beacon of freedom and democracy,” ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou said, referring to Wu’s tweet. [FULL STORY]
