China Banishes U.S. Journalists from Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post

BEIJING—China reported it would revoke the press qualifications of Us citizens doing work for 3 main U.S. newspapers in the largest expulsion of international journalists in the post-Mao period, amid an escalating struggle with the Trump administration about media functioning in the two nations around the world.

China’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs reported Wednesday it was demanding that all U.S. nationals doing work for The Wall Road Journal, the New York Instances and the Washington Article whose press qualifications expire by the end of the calendar year turn those people qualifications in…