Political social media influencer Terence Shen amplified a video of Chinese journalist Wang Bingru at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and questioned her presence at the event, saying she is “a Chinese correspondent for Communist Party owned and controlled Hong Kong Phoenix Television.” Shen asserted that Hong Kong Phoenix “operates as fully state-aligned media, no different from China Central Television or Xinhua News Agency.”
U.S.-China relations expert Gordon G. Chang, an American and distinguished senior fellow at the conservative think tank Gatestone Institute, responded: “China is expelling Western journalists. Wang Bingru’s presence in our country raises issues of reciprocity.”
China is expelling Western journalists. Wang Bingru’s presence in our country raises issues of reciprocity. https://t.co/QgS6P9k9uq
— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) April 27, 2026
Chang often appears on Fox News to discuss U.S.-China relations. As seen below, last month on Varney & Co., he said Trump should not meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in May because it would appear as if Trump “is a supplicant coming to their capital in the middle of a war where they need his help.”
“They shouldn’t be meeting. We’re still fighting a war.” – Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow Gordon Chang (@GordonGChang) does not support President Trump’s upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping in China. pic.twitter.com/S3rlPlvfIT
— Varney & Co. (@Varneyco) March 27, 2026
[NOTE: Last week, during an interview with Fox News, Trump told Maria Bartiromo that he has a “very good relationship” with Xi Jinping and criticized Chang’s understanding of the U.S.-China relationship, saying of Chang: “He has no idea what he’s talking about.”]
Today, in response to a New York Times article titled ‘China’s Economy Starts to Show Cracks From Iran War,’ Chang warned: “China’s economy could crack soon. Whether it will or not is in Trump’s—not Xi’s—hands. In the past, American presidents—Nixon, Bush 41, and Clinton in particular—rescued the CCP. Let’s not do that again.”
[NOTE: U.S. Senators, including Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and Rick Scott (R-FL), have spoken transparently about hopes that the U.S. action in Iran will negatively impact China, with Scott telling an audience at the Semafor World Economy conference in April that Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz “is fine from my standpoint,” and noting that “if no oil ever goes to China again, and their economy is destroyed, that would be a really wonderful day for me.”]
“I think blocking the Strait of Hormuz is fine from my standpoint,” @SenRickScott tells @burgessev.
“If no oil ever goes to China again, and their economy is destroyed, that would be a really wonderful day for me.” pic.twitter.com/mfeGZwwSrf
— Semafor (@semafor) April 13, 2026