Last Chinese reporter leaves country after India denies visa extension
The Hindu
The last remaining Chinese reporter in India has been effectively expelled after having been denied a visa extension earlier this month.
The last remaining Chinese reporter in India has been effectively expelled after having been denied a visa extension earlier this month.
The reporter, from China’s official Xinhua news agency, left New Delhi around one week ago, according to people familiar with the development.
The expulsion marks the first instance of there being no Chinese journalists in India since the normalisation of relations in the 1980s.
There is currently one Indian reporter from the Press Trust of India news agency who remains in Beijing.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on June 12 said the reporter was “still working and living normally in China” but suggested that it may take countermeasures if India did not extend the visa of “the last Chinese journalist in the country”.
“Since 2020, the Indian side has refused to review and approve Chinese journalists’ applications for stationing in India and limited the period of validity of visas held by Chinese journalists in India to only three months or even one month,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a press briefing. “As a result, the number of Chinese journalists stationed in India has plummeted from 14 to just one,” he said then.
In April, China froze the visas of two of the four Indian correspondents, in what it described as countermeasures after India in March asked a Chinese journalist to leave, leaving only two Chinese reporters in the country.
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