Here's a timeline for those who haven't followed this:
Feb 3rd: WSJ publishes opinion piece titled "China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia"
Feb 19th: China expels three China-based WSJ reporters
March 2nd: America limits journalists from Chinese state media from 160 to 100
No.
There are thousands and thousands of journalists working for foreign governments, friendly and hostile, in the United States. Some hostile foreign governments even operate domestic broadcasting operations in America. (China, Russia, etc...)
The worst thing that's ever been done in recent memory is requiring those operations to register as foreign agents. And I think at one time there was a move to limit the Kremlin's cadre to something like 1,000 people. But I might be remembering that part wrong.
“Our goal is reciprocity. As we have done in other areas of the U.S.-China relationship, we seek to establish a long-overdue level playing field,” Pompeo said in a statement to CNBC about the cap. “It is our hope that this action will spur Beijing to adopt a more fair and reciprocal approach to U.S. and other foreign press in China.”
Reciprocity = you limit our journalist we'll limit yours.
I expect a ban on those 100 remaining Chinese state media journalists.
The goal is for the United States to follow the principles laid down in the Bill of Rights. Throwing those out in order to pressure other countries is a terrible idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Asia
The phrase reminds any Chinese about China's darkest history in 500 years.
It's widely believed the expelling of the three WSJ report was retaliation to that.