I don’t know who started this, but I always feel frustrated when I see headline along the lines of “USA says” or “China signal”, countries are not people.
I don’t understand why don’t even the best news outlets put headlines like " Official x said this on official order on USA" Or something like that.
I really don’t understand who came up with this way of reporting where they report on officials as their country and I always thought that this is dumb.
I see X official says stuff all the time. Usually though if you talk about a law that will be enacted or some executive order that will result in a country doing something a certain way then it says the country. So you tend to see it more often when the executive have power where if they say something is is going to happen vs a democracy were the executive has little chance of making happen what they said.