China on Monday called on India to meet it halfway in a dispute over journalists working in each other's countries after China said its reporters in India had been treated unfairly and an Indian journalist was asked to leave China.
The dispute over media staff is the latest episode to highlight tension between the two countries since a deterioration in ties in mid-2020 when troops clashed on the Sino-Indian border and 24 people were killed.
"In recent years, Chinese journalists in India have been accorded unfair and discriminatory arrangements," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told a Monday briefing.
