for more on this let's cross live now to be executive director of the international center for advanced political studies just of mahoney thanks for being with us here on r.t. international. so what does washington hope to achieve by really reducing the number of chinese journalists working in the united states. well let's let's be clear this this all started because the wall street journal ran an opinion an op ed. from a conservative scholar and a scholar didn't write the title is usually the case that the editorial board did and the title was china is the real sick man of asia now many people interpreted this as being a throwback to some very problematic racist oriental this language that was being used turn of the last century in the in the early 1900 late late 1900 and so this offended a lot of people in china and as a result wall street journal was perhaps targeted by by restrictions by the by the chinese government so you know trump now responding to this. to be frank i think what he's really trying to do is score points with the american media and in particular the wall street journal it so it's a

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