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China warned that it would retaliate after the United States added four more Chinese media outlets to a list of organizations that should be considered “foreign missions†because of their links to the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s move was “yet another example of the U.S.’s flagrant political suppression of the Chinese media†and revealed American “hypocrisy†over freedom of the press. “We strongly urge the United States to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice and immediately stop and correct this wrong practice that serves no one’s interest....
