Beijing said journalists who attack China were “not welcome” in the country, after it failed to renew the press credentials of a foreign journalist who wrote an article about one of President Xi Jinping’s cousins. It amounts to the effective expulsion of Chun Han Wong, a Singaporean national who has worked for the Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau since 2014. In a statement to AFP, the foreign ministry said it “strongly opposed some foreign reporters’ malicious smears and attacks on China, and these kinds of journalists are not welcome”.
