A federal spotlight on Chinese government-backed media drew a complaint from the Communist regime Wednesday.

“They need to facilitate rather than obstruct media’s normal work, still less politic[ci]zing the relevant issue,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in his regular press briefing, per the official transcript.

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