Chinese authorities have detained Haze Fan, a Chinese national and Bloomberg News staff member working for their Beijing bureau, on suspicion of national security endangerment, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
The big picture: Chinese citizens working for Western media companies have been warned by officials to “watch their step,” according to the Washington Post. Western media companies are facing worsening conditions in China, and many American journalists have been expelled from the country.
Earlier this year, after the U.S. State Department imposed strict limits for Chinese nationals in the U.S. on journalist visas, Beijing expelled several U.S. correspondents from China, reducing global visibility into China at a critical time, as Axios’ Bethany Allen Ebrahimian reported.