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Trump and Xi: Authoritarian leaders ban reporters.

"North Korea rebuilding long-range rocket site, photos show"

THEN - White House Bars 4 U.S. Journalists From Trump’s Dinner With Kim in Hanoi


President Trump and Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, at a dinner on Wednesday in Hanoi, Vietnam. The White House prohibited
several journalists from covering the event. Doug Mills/The New York Times

By Michael M. Grynbaum and Katie Rogers

Feb. 27, 2019

WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday barred four American journalists from covering President Trump’s dinner with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in Hanoi, Vietnam, after two of the reporters called out questions to Mr. Trump at an earlier appearance.

It is highly unusual for a presidential administration to retaliate against reporters by restricting their access, particularly at a closely scrutinized foreign summit meeting. Given the backdrop — a United States president meeting with the totalitarian leader of a country with no independent media — the move sent a starkly different message from those delivered in such settings by Mr. Trump’s predecessors, who often sought to encourage expressions of press freedom when meeting with representatives of autocratic regimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/business/media/reporters-banned-trump-hanoi.html

NOW - Chinese authorities revoke credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters, including an Australian

Updated about 8 hours ago


Photo: China's decision is being seen as retaliation for new US restrictions on its state-run
media. (AP: Ng Han Guan))

China has revoked the press credentials of three journalists with the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper declined to
apologise for an opinion column with a headline calling China the "real sick man of Asia," China's foreign ministry said.

Key points:

* China's foreign ministry said it had revoked the press cards of three WSJ correspondents in Beijing

* The decision came immediately after the US took measures against state-run Chinese media

* Beijing was unhappy with a WSJ report about Australian authorities investigating Xi Jinping's cousin

Beijing made "stern representations" to the paper over the February 3 opinion piece, which China criticised as racist and denigrating its efforts to combat a coronavirus epidemic, Spokesman Geng Shuang said, adding the paper did not apologise or investigate those responsible.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-20/china-revokes-three-wall-street-journal-reporters-credentials/11982944