[mikechen233]

China never kicked Western journalists out. It revoked journalist liscence from a number of journalists from Washington Post, nyt, and wall street journal as a retailation when the US designated five Chinese media as Beijing operatives. Media from other countries, UK, Germany etc are all in China. You can see reporting and interviews in China by bbc, Reuters and many others right now.

As from the virus in China, as person who have many relatives and friends near wuhan and in Beijing, from all information sources I can gather, there is no massive spread in China right now. They staying highly alert but there isn't a large number of infections right now. And my anecdotal observation on the severity of the issue during February matches with the official count. So I don't believe there is massive under-reporting. All my friends and family don't buy there is massive deliberate under reporting as well.