Journalist Visa Renewal

The last Indian journalist in China has been asked to leave, as Beijing and New Delhi eject each other's reporters in a tit-for-tat row deepening a rift between the Asian economic powerhouses.

A row has broken out over denial of visas and refusal to renew them for Indian journalists in China. The government said foreign journalists including Chinese are working without any problems in India. But China has alleged "unfair" treatment.

The foreign ministry said on Friday it hoped Beijing would allow Indian journalists to continue to work in China, and said that New Delhi allows all foreign journalists to operate in India.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said on Wednesday that the foreign ministry had "effectively" ejected BuzzFeed News's Beijing bureau chief from the country after declining to renew her visa.

China's state-run media has warned India of "serious consequences" if its decision against renewing the visas of a group of journalists was retaliation for Beijing blocking India from joining the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG, a 48-country nuclear trade bloc.

Pakistan has ordered the only two Indian journalists stationed in the country to leave within a week, telling them their visas would not be renewed, a move denounced by India as "a retrograde step."

Al Jazeera has closed the China bureau for its English channel after Chinese authorities refused to renew its correspondent's visa, marking the first such expulsion of an accredited foreign correspondent in over a decade.

The last Indian journalist in China has been asked to leave, as Beijing and New Delhi eject each other's reporters in a tit-for-tat row deepening a rift between the Asian economic powerhouses.

A row has broken out over denial of visas and refusal to renew them for Indian journalists in China. The government said foreign journalists including Chinese are working without any problems in India. But China has alleged "unfair" treatment.

The foreign ministry said on Friday it hoped Beijing would allow Indian journalists to continue to work in China, and said that New Delhi allows all foreign journalists to operate in India.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said on Wednesday that the foreign ministry had "effectively" ejected BuzzFeed News's Beijing bureau chief from the country after declining to renew her visa.

China's state-run media has warned India of "serious consequences" if its decision against renewing the visas of a group of journalists was retaliation for Beijing blocking India from joining the Nuclear Suppliers Group or NSG, a 48-country nuclear trade bloc.

Pakistan has ordered the only two Indian journalists stationed in the country to leave within a week, telling them their visas would not be renewed, a move denounced by India as "a retrograde step."

Al Jazeera has closed the China bureau for its English channel after Chinese authorities refused to renew its correspondent's visa, marking the first such expulsion of an accredited foreign correspondent in over a decade.