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China has expelled our correspondents, along with others from @wsj and @washingtonpost, in a diplomatic dispute with the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/media/china-expels-american-journalists.html
Here’s why it matters.
Without reporters on the ground, the world wouldn’t have had early warnings about the coronavirus crisis like one in the beginning of January. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/asia/china-SARS-pneumonialike.html
Without reporters on the ground, the world wouldn’t have had early warnings about the coronavirus crisis like one in the beginning of January. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/world/asia/china-SARS-pneumonialike.html
The @nytimes had four journalists in Wuhan covering the epidemic. @ChuBailiang was in the city when the lockdown began in January, delivering an eerie portrait of the 21st-century siege. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/world/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus.html
In Wuhan, @amyyqin introduced us to the Zhang family, in which three generations were sickened, a heartbreaking warning about the infectiousness of the virus. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/world/asia/coronavirus-family-china.html
Among the first journalists in Wuhan during the outbreak, @HernandezJavier raised some of the initial questions in January about whether China was properly counting cases, after meeting an architect whose stepmother died. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/world/asia/china-coronavirus-wuhan.html
. @zhonggg and @paulmozur detailed the extent of the restrictions in China, where more than half of the population faced a residential lockdown, foreshadowing what the rest of the world would soon face with the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/business/china-coronavirus-lockdown.html
We have been committed to covering China for decades — all its strengths, weaknesses, triumphs and failures. We showed how China’s success has changed the world and defied expectations. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-rules.html
We have devoted significant resources to uncovering the truth about the crackdown in Xinjiang, including an exposé on a trove of government leaks that detailed how the Chinese state carried out the far-reaching internment campaign. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
. @stevenleemyers took readers to the new edges of China’s sweeping rollback of religion to Ningxia, where the authorities have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/world/asia/china-islam-crackdown.html
The same investigative tradition is shared by @washingtonpost and @wsj.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-chinas-deadly-chemical-disaster-a-shattered-region-weighs-cost-of-the-rush-to-get-rich/2019/03/31/78cf3a5c-508b-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-wuhan-chinas-residential-committees-fight-outbreak-on-front-line-11581717012
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/after-chinas-deadly-chemical-disaster-a-shattered-region-weighs-cost-of-the-rush-to-get-rich/2019/03/31/78cf3a5c-508b-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-wuhan-chinas-residential-committees-fight-outbreak-on-front-line-11581717012
Not having reporters on the ground in China means not fully understanding the country, its economy, its culture and its people, which @suilee and @KeithBradsher have chronicled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/business/china-yoga-elderly-village.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/world/asia/chongqing-china-employment-ford-youth.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/business/china-yoga-elderly-village.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/world/asia/chongqing-china-employment-ford-youth.html
We hope the Chinese government reverses its decision and allows our @nytimes reporters, as well as those from @wsj and @washingtonpost, to continue their work in China.
