The announcement comes as the two countries are feuding over the coronavirus pandemic, with Donald Trump defiantly calling it the 'Chinese virus' and a senior Beijing official promoting conspiracy theories of US involvement.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the op-ed -- which was titled 'China is the Real Sick Man of Asia' -- had a 'racially discriminatory' and 'sensational' headline.

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal won the prestigious Pulitzer prize for their investigations into the US President Donald Trump, exposing various financial irregularities and hush money payments give by Trump

The paper has said though that some cities will still get the US edition.

Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in Bangalore on September 5 in an attack similar to that on Kannada writer and scholar M.M. Kalburgi in Dharwad two years ago.