China asks India to create favourable conditions for media organizations' exchanges: Mao Ning.

BEIJING -- Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday that China would like to maintain communication with India and the Indian side would hopefully respond to its concerns and create favourable conditions for normal exchanges between media organizations of the two countries.

'I want to stress that China would like to maintain communication with India and we hope the Indian side will respond to China's concerns and create favourable conditions for normal exchanges between media organizations of the two countries,' Mao Ning said during her regular briefing.

According to media reports, China and India have ejected a large number of each other's journalists recently by denying visa renewals.

The spokesperson said Chinese journalists had suffered unfair and discriminatory treatment in India for a long time.

'In 2017, the Indian side shortened the period of validity of visas held by Chinese journalists in India to three months or even one month without any valid reason.'

Mao Ning said since 2020, the Indian side had refused to review and approve Chinese journalists' applications for stationing in India.

'In December 2021, a CGTN journalist was asked with no explanation till now to leave the country within 10 days when his visa...