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China is putting journalists working for American news organizations under threat of expulsion after they published a string of investigative reports that embarrassed the Communist Party.

Twenty-four foreign journalists working for The New York Times and Bloomberg could be forced to leave the country in the coming weeks after officials stalled over renewing their visas.

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While China has denied or delayed visas to individual journalists in the past, it is the first time that the staff of two entire organizations have been targeted.

Both American news organizations have had their websites blocked in China since late last year after each published detailed investigative reports.

A New York Times article exposing US$3-billion fortune of the family of the then prime minister, Wen Jiabao, enraged the government, which has since censored its English and Chinese websites.

Bloomberg recently released one of its most senior investigative reporters and allegedly self-censored an article that it felt might have incurred similar wrath.