On Monday, I argued that the Trump administration should respond to China’s extraordinary coronavirus lying by expelling its ambassador to the United States, Cui Tianakai.

On Tuesday, China gave another justification for that action by announcing that all American journalists for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal must leave Chinese soil within 10 days. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs says this is necessary because “the U.S. approach to the Chinese media is based on Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice.”