Today's Word Is Expelled

Oct 16, 2026 · 0:31

Today's word is expelled. Professor Wobble: a reporter was expelled from China in nineteen ninety-one. Bitsy: why? Professor Wobble: he had obtained party documents marked top secret; in eighty-six, a correspondent was charged with spying after a motorcycle trip. Bitsy: eighty-six, ninety-one, that's old! Mort: and the spy hunt has grown sharply since twenty twelve. Brought to you by the word expelled.

China's suspicion of foreign reporters is older than Xi Jinping: after 1989 the party accused foreign journalists of spreading 'bourgeois liberalism' and expelled two American reporters for 'obtaining state secrets'; a veteran correspondent was arrested in 1986 and charged with espionage after a motorcycle trip through the hinterland, then deported; the writer himself was expelled in 1991 after obtaining party documents marked top secret; and the hunt for spies has only escalated since 2012.

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