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Xi Jinping is often described as China’s most powerful leader in decades, perhaps even since Mao. He has been credited if sometimes grudgingly with pursuing a vigorous foreign policy, economic reforms, and a historic crackdown on corruption.But as Xi completes his third year in office this month, this judgment seems increasingly mistaken, with China trapped by the same taboos
When Chinese law professor Xu Zhangrun began publishing articles last year criticizing the government’s turn toward a harsher variety of authoritarianism, it seemed inevitable that he would be swiftly silenced. But then, remarkably, dozens of prominent citizens began speaking up. Some signed a petition, others wrote essays and poems in Xu’s support, and one wrote a song. To
US Returns Pandas to China: Ya Ya, a 22-year-old female giant panda, recently celebrated her farewell party at Memphis Zoo in Tennessee as she returns to China likely by the end of the month. Another US zoo said its two giant pandas will move back to the Asian country by 2023 end
A new report by Scholars at Risk details tactics to silence and intimidate students and professors, as well as a climate of surveillance and self-censorship.