BEIJING—China stated it would revoke the press credentials of Us residents operating for three big U.S. newspapers in the premier expulsion of foreign journalists in the article-Mao period, amid an escalating battle with the Trump administration more than media operating in the two nations around the world.

The Ministry of Overseas Affairs stated Wednesday it was demanding all U.S. nationals operating for The Wall Avenue Journal, the New York Occasions and the Washington Submit whose credentials expire by the close of the yr flip these credentials in within just ten times….