Beijing is expelling journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, and is asking those three outlets—as well as Time magazine and the Voice of America—to share information about their operations. (The New York Times)

Talking point: The move is the latest escalation between the two countries, which have been locked in a trade war throughout U.S. President Donald Trump’s term. Earlier this month, Washington restricted the number of Chinese citizens who can work in the U.S. for five state-controlled Chinese news outlets. “Our goal is reciprocity,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at the time. Beijing is now targeting five outlets, as well. Foreign journalists did some of the most aggressive reporting on COVID-19 in the early days of the outbreak in China. China has blocked online access for years to several of the outlets whose journalists it’s now targeting, as well as a number of major Canadian media outlets—CBC’s website, for example, has been blocked since 2014, and the Toronto Star’s since last June.