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          China is one of the biggest stories in the world — and one of the most complex. That’s why The New York Times has always tried to have correspondents on the ground who can get under the surface and report out the nuances.
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          But the Chinese authorities have long been wary of foreign journalists. They restrict their access, surveil their movements and sometimes expel them outright. My colleague Vivian Wang, our brilliant China correspondent, recently had her visa revoked.
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          During her time in the country, she talked to a cross-section of Chinese society — migrant workers, academics, college students, retirees. Today, Vivian tells the story of how the Chinese authorities expelled her, what in her reporting made them unhappy and why being on the ground matters.
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          How I was kicked out of China
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          By Vivian Wang
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          In February, I left my home in Beijing for a work meeting in Seoul. It was supposed to be a quick trip. I packed just a few days’ worth of clothes.
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          At the airport for my flight out, a border control officer looked at my passport, then at her screen, then back at me. She summoned another colleague, who asked me to follow him into a screened-off area.
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          There, he informed me that my visa had been canceled by order of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. I could get on my flight to Seoul, he said, but I could not come back.
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          It all took just a few minutes. I walked to my gate, stunned. I had been expelled from China.
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          There are some topics Beijing is obviously sensitive about: the personal lives of top leaders, for example, or large-scale human rights abuses, like the repression of ethnic minorities. I have reported on some of these issues, but they were by no means most of what I wrote about. My focus as a correspondent had been the lives of ordinary Chinese people, and how they processed the huge changes happening in their country.
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          But that reporting also got me in trouble. The Foreign Ministry had been threatening me for months, making false accusations about my reporting practices after I wrote about people’s experiences with surveillance or coronavirus lockdowns. I had been followed or physically blocked from doing interviews — even for totally innocuous stories, like one about a rock band.
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          So while my expulsion stunned me, I wasn’t totally surprised. The Chinese government is opaque. We don’t know exactly why it chose to cancel my visa. But what became clear throughout my time in China is that the old assumptions about what is “sensitive” no longer apply.
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          In May, the Chinese government briefly let me back in to pack up my home, which had been unoccupied for four months. During my few weeks back, I was reminded of all the details of daily life that you just don’t see when you’re not in China — retirees watching A.I. anchors on the evening news, or taxi drivers complaining about being squeezed by ride-hailing platforms.
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          Without those details, outsiders might only look at China through the prism of its competition with the United States. Or they might only see the takes of influencers on how China is a futuristic wonderland of high-speed trains and skyscrapers. Neither of those stories is wrong — but they’re incomplete.
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          My colleagues and I will still be trying to report those stories, though most of us are now outside the country. I’ll also be writing about Chinese people outside China and Beijing’s global influence. But there’s really no substitute for being there.
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