U.S. and China Have Reached Deal on Journalists’ Visas, Chinese Media Say

U.S. President Joe Biden listens while meeting virtually with Xi Jinping, China's president, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15.Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/UPI
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China and the U.S. agreed to ease visa restrictions imposed during the Trump administration on each other’s journalists, Chinese state media reported, a development that would remove one of the irritants in the relationship between the nations.

After the U.S. begins to issue one-year multiple entry visas for Chinese journalists, China will reciprocate, outlets including China Daily reported Tuesday, hours after Presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden spoke via video conference.