The Trump administration is tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists in response to the treatment of U.S. journalists in China.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued new regulations, set to take effect Monday, that will limit visas for Chinese reporters to 90 days. There is a potential to extend the visa. Those visas previously didn’t have to be extended unless the employee switched companies, and they were considered open-ended.
The regulations don’t apply to journalists from Hong Kong or Macau, two territories considered semiautonomous, according to the regulations published Friday in the Federal Register.
Walt, both FINANCIAL TIMES and THE DAILY BEAST reported—including with email proof—that Trump's top trade representative in China, Michael Pillsbury, received dirt on the Bidens from the Chinese government the same week in October Trump asked for it. So it was not "unsuccessful." https://t.co/WSE4nIpr6l
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