New Delhi: Weeks after India requested a Chinese journalist to depart the nation, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) determined to “freeze” the visas of two Indian journalists based mostly in Beijing, indicating that extra “counter measures” may observe in opposition to different Indian journalists, until New Delhi provides reciprocal visa and tenure phrases to Chinese journalists in India.

According to a Hindustan Times report, citing individuals aware of the matter, state-run Prasar Bharati’s consultant in Beijing, Anshuman Mishra, and The Hindu’s correspondent, Ananth Krishnan, have been knowledgeable by Chinese officers that they need to not return to China as their visas have been frozen. Both Mishra and Krishnan had lately visited India for private causes.

The transfer adopted the Indian facet informing a New Delhi-based correspondent of state-run Xinhua information company final month that his Indian visa wouldn’t be renewed. The Xinhua correspondent was requested to return to China by 31 March and has since gone again, based on the report.

‘Counter-measures’

Meanwhile, two different journalists belonging to the information company PTI and the Hindustan Times, at the moment in China, have been knowledgeable by the MFA that they may keep on for now at the same time as it’s contemplating its choices and “counter measures” in opposition to what it claims is India’s unfair therapy of Chinese journalists.

The MEA declined to remark formally on the transfer. However, sources denied that India had taken any motion in opposition to Chinese journalists within the current previous.

They stated that many Chinese reporters based mostly in Delhi had left in the course of the Covid pandemic and never returned, and it was “factually incorrect” to counsel any “measures” that merited “counter-measures” had been employed in opposition to them, based on The Hindu report.

China demanding extra visas

China is reportedly demanding extra visas for its correspondents to cowl India. It can also be asking for present visa tenures, that must be renewed each three months, to be elevated to 12-month visas, because the Chinese MFA supplies Indian journalists with year-long visas.

From a few dozen correspondents a decade in the past, there have been solely about 4 Chinese journalists based mostly in India by the tip of 2022.

In 2016, India had expelled three journalists belonging to State media community Xinhua after safety companies accused them of “indulging in activities beyond their journalistic brief”. Since then, the rift in India-China ties has grown, particularly after the standoff between the armies of the 2 international locations over Chinese troops’ transgressions alongside the Line of Actual Control in April 2020.

The matter is reportedly now being mentioned between the Indian Embassy in Beijing and the Chinese MFA.

With inputs from companies

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Updated Date:

April 05, 2023 10:38:35 IST