Amid row, India says journalists from all G20 nations along with China welcome to cowl summit

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: India will facilitate journalists from all G20 nations to cowl the summit along with these from China, acknowledged the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). This comes amid a row between India and China over the revoking of credentials of each other’s journalists. There is one Chinese journalist in India and two Indian journalists in China.

“We have been holding G20 meetings which have been attended by foreign journalists. The journalists have to register and get accredited and visas are thereafter issued. We will be doing the same for journalists for the upcoming G20 Summit in September,” acknowledged MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi.

India has reiterated that abroad journalists, along with Chinese, have been pursuing journalistic actions in India with out limitations or difficulties in reporting.

“Chinese journalists in India have no difficulties in reporting. However, Indian journalists in China have been operating with difficulties – such as not being permitted to hire locals as correspondents or journalists. Foreign media in India can freely hire local journalists to work for their bureaus. Indian journalists in China also face restrictions while getting access and travelling locally within China,” acknowledged Bagchi.

India hopes that Chinese authorities facilitate the continued presence of Indian journalists in working and reporting from China. The two sides keep in touch referring to this concern.

Meanwhile, the Chinese facet alleges that their journalists in India have suffered unfair treatment.

“Chinese journalists have suffered unfair and discriminatory treatment in India for long. In 2017, India had reduced the validity of visas for our journalists to three months and sometimes just one month and since 2020 India hasn’t approved Chinese journalists applications for being stationed in India. At present there is just one Chinese journalist in India, down from 14 in the past. As a result China has taken counter measures,” acknowledged China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mao Ning currently.

China says that it wish to protect communication with India beneath the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual revenue.

“We hope that India will work in the same direction with China and respond to our legitimate concerns and create conditions for restoring normal exchange between media organizations of both countries,” Ning acknowledged.

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has reiterated that India’s relationship with China should not be common.

India and China have a lot of factors with each other – a very powerful being the stand-off on the LAC. The currently held twenty seventh meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) which was held in-person did discuss disengaging from the LAC and restoring peace.

NEW DELHI: India will facilitate journalists from all G20 nations to cowl the summit along with these from China, acknowledged the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). This comes amid a row between India and China over the revoking of credentials of each other’s journalists. There is one Chinese journalist in India and two Indian journalists in China.

“We have been holding G20 meetings which have been attended by foreign journalists. The journalists have to register and get accredited and visas are thereafter issued. We will be doing the same for journalists for the upcoming G20 Summit in September,” acknowledged MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi.

India has reiterated that abroad journalists, along with Chinese, have been pursuing journalistic actions in India with out limitations or difficulties in reporting.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“Chinese journalists in India have no difficulties in reporting. However, Indian journalists in China have been operating with difficulties – such as not being permitted to hire locals as correspondents or journalists. Foreign media in India can freely hire local journalists to work for their bureaus. Indian journalists in China also face restrictions while getting access and travelling locally within China,” acknowledged Bagchi.

India hopes that Chinese authorities facilitate the continued presence of Indian journalists in working and reporting from China. The two sides keep in touch referring to this concern.

Meanwhile, the Chinese facet alleges that their journalists in India have suffered unfair treatment.

“Chinese journalists have suffered unfair and discriminatory treatment in India for long. In 2017, India had reduced the validity of visas for our journalists to three months and sometimes just one month and since 2020 India hasn’t approved Chinese journalists applications for being stationed in India. At present there is just one Chinese journalist in India, down from 14 in the past. As a result China has taken counter measures,” acknowledged China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mao Ning currently.

China says that it wish to protect communication with India beneath the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual revenue.

“We hope that India will work in the same direction with China and respond to our legitimate concerns and create conditions for restoring normal exchange between media organizations of both countries,” Ning acknowledged.

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has reiterated that India’s relationship with China should not be common.

India and China have a lot of factors with each other – a very powerful being the stand-off on the LAC. The currently held twenty seventh meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) which was held in-person did discuss disengaging from the LAC and restoring peace.