China has said it may take further action against US resident correspondents if Washington does not "correct the mistake".

"The US says all options are open. Today, I would like to tell the US that all options are also being considered by China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Canh Shuang said at a press conference in Beijing today.

The remarks came after China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the expulsion of resident journalists working for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post from mainland China, even banning them from operating in the special zone. Hong Kong administration and requested these agencies, together with VOA and Time magazine, to provide details about their operations, finance and real estate in China.

Canh confirmed that Beijing has the right to deport US permanent correspondents in Hong Kong, because all diplomatic activities in the special zone are managed by the central government.

"We can take more measures against US media outlets in China if the United States does not correct the mistake," he said.

The decision to expel US journalists was made just a few weeks after the administration of President Donald Trump asked five Chinese media outlets in the US to reduce the number of permanent reporters from 160 to 100 from the day. 3/13.

The correspondent of a foreign news agency in China is an active team reporting on Covid-19 earlier this year, even from the first days of the outbreak in Wuhan, as well as reflecting many hot issues in the country. this.

Dean Baquet, a member of the New York Times editorial board, said that deporting American journalists was "especially irresponsible, at a time when the world needed reliable and free information about the pandemic caused by nCoV". . Matt Murray, the editor-in-chief of the WSJ and Martin Baron, a member of the Washington Post editorial board, also criticized Beijing's decision.