CGTN: 'Racist-like remarks are not welcome,' China says as it revokes press cards of 3 WSJ journalists
China has revoked the press credentials of three journalists from the Wall Street Journal, citing the paper's "racist-like" remarks on China and attacks on China's media, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said on Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal carried a recent article by Walter Russell Mead who used the term "sick man" to describe China and smeared the efforts of the Chinese government and people on fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.
The paper has so far neither made an official apology regarding the article nor informed the ministry of what it plans to do with the persons involved despite China's solemn representation.
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Update #1: China Expels Three Wall Street Journal Reporters (The Wall Street Journal)
Update #2: China expels three Wall Street Journal reporters over opinion article written by academic (The Washington Post)
WNU Editor: Beijing is becoming paranoid over coverage of its handling of the coronavirus outbreak. They are putting a lot of pressure on media outlets, and the censors are working overtime. As for this specific WSJ expulsion. The Wall Street Journal refused to do a Bloomberg .... When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out (The Intercept).
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One of the WSJ reporters blatantly used a racist title for his article. Check it out yourself.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-the-real-sick-man-of-asia-11580773677
The term sick man has been around since the 19th century.
It usually means a large empire or nation that looks robust on paper, but is weak. It was applied to the Ottoman Empire.
There is nothing overtly racists about the term.
If the Uighurs, Tibetan, and Manchus split off, China would be very much smaller. I am not for that, but many people wish it, dream of it, and work for it.
sick-man. Noun. (plural sick men) (idiomatic, usually with of) A weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/The+Sick+Man+of+Europe
Due in large part to several tumultuous years of indecision in its parliament, Greece has been the sick man of Europe since the global recession began.
The banking giant, which once propped up the entire country, has now become the sick man of the economy in recent years.
Last time I checked the Greeks were white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe
"Sick man of Europe" is a label given to a European country experiencing a time of economic difficulty or impoverishment. The term was first used in the mid-19th century to describe the Ottoman Empire.
You can always blame the Russians.
John Russell in 1853, in the run up to the Crimean War, quotes
John Russell in 1853, in the run up to the Crimean War, quotes Nicholas I of Russia describing the Ottoman Empire as "a sick man—a very sick man", a "man" who "has fallen into a state of decrepitude", or a "sick man ... gravely ill".
I wonder what will happen in the US if some US journalist writes an article with the title "Mexico is the real sick man of North America".
Let's be honest. Canada is the sick man of North America. Mexico has great problems, but it is dynamic. Canada may be dismembered or slowly sclerotically decay.
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