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Chinese Editor Resigns Amid Growing Pressure to Toe the Party Line

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A screenshot of Yu Xiaolei’s resignation letter to the Southern Metropolis Daily says: “I can’t take the surname of the Communist Party any more.”

A top editor at a cutting-edge newspaper in the southern Chinese Guangdong province resigned after the ruling Chinese Communist Party imposed new media controls, the journalist announced on social media. Continue reading