China Takes Aim at ‘Illegal’ Club for Foreign Correspondents
- Reporters ‘lucky’ to be in the country, Foreign Ministry says
- Chinese officials have a history of impeding journalists
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China slammed a foreign correspondents’ club in the country as an “illegal organization,” broadening its attack on journalists whose reports differ from the government’s official line.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China has no sense of right and wrong and lacks principles, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press briefing Thursday in Beijing.