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"It will also adversely affect newsroom diversity in the US, and ultimately be detrimental to press freedom. This media war is a lose-lose situation for both Chinese journalists and press freedom in the US. But it is a win-win for Trump and Xi administrations. After all, they share an apathy for independent journalism."

There is no such thing as 'press freedom' and has never been. Western media have always been irresponsible and untrustworthy and never more so than today, when only 6% of Americans, for example, trust their media. Expelling Western journalists will benefit China because they have never told the truth as long as they have been there. Expelling Chinese journalists, who have generally been balanced in their reporting of the US will cost the US dearly, as Chinese interest in it will fade and it will become a backwater.

"Check Point Research presents evidence of ongoing cyber espionage operations in Asia attributed to the Naikon group." No, Check Point Research presented no evidence whatever. It simply alleged something.

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