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China Slaps Website With Two-Month Suspension From Media ‘Whitelist’

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Screenshot of Caixin media’s website, which has been accused by China’s censors of “repeatedly violating news and propaganda discipline” during the past year. Public Domain.

The ruling Chinese Communist Party has issued a sharp rebuke to the cutting-edge Caixin media group, ordering a two-month ban on republishing its content. Continue reading

Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation

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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with media in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of the country and the people.” Continue reading

Chinese magazine challenges government over censorship

Weeks after Xi Jinping demanded loyalty from media, Caixin claims it was ordered to remove interview on free speech

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Xi Jinping visiting China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing on 19 February, where he demanded absolute loyalty from Chinese media. Photograph: Ma Zhancheng/AP

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