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The fusillade of censorship has been taken as a widespread indi-cation that Xi Jinping, who rose to his position in 2012 amid a power struggle that has never really concluded, is in full con-trol of the Party’s propaganda apparatus and is now on a mis-sion to thoroughly stamp out free speech.

A more complex picture emerges, however, when exam-ining the persistence of elite power struggles over the last few years, the personal loyalties of those in charge of propaganda, and the history of attempts by incumbent communist leaders to truly gain control over the pen – which, along with the gun,

has always been one of the key planks of Party control.

Censorship and resistanceRen Zhiqiang has for years been known as the Donald Trump of China for his blunt, sometimes acerbic remarks about the down-sides of Party rule. With follow-ers numbering 38 million, his account on Sina Weibo, the pop-ular Chinese Twitter-like micro-blog, offered a powerful plat-form to express his views. The account was purged at the end of February.

Chinese censors said they deleted Ren’s account due to the “vile impact” it had; in response to Xi’s tour of state media, for

instance, Ren wrote: “When did the people’s government change into the Party’s government?”

The silencing of Ren cast a pall over the proceedings of the annual political conclaves in Beijing in early March. Offi-cials and economists were afraid to speak candidly with even the docile state press, a fact that was remarked upon by the delegate Jiang Hong, and duly reported by Caixin, a respected business publication. This led to a rare back-and-forth tussle with cen-sors in which a total of three articles on press controls were published by Caixin and then censored.

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Following a high-profile tour of state media headquarters by Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping in February, Party censors have been unusually aggressive.

A property mogul’s popular microblog was erased from the Internet; a respected Chinese financial publication took the rare step of calling out the censors not once, but twice (incurring, of course, more censorship); and a Chinese journalist vanished on his way to Hong Kong. The journalist’s arrest is believed to be linked with an odd open letter calling for Xi to resign.

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ED BUGS, Luo Yu thought when he was awakened by a biting sen-sation late at night on June 3, 1989. Luo, a colonel and head of

the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Gen-eral Staff Department’s aviation equip-ment office, turned on the lights, checked

the sheets and found nothing.The mysterious insect bites and inter-

mittent “ta! ta! ta!” sounds that seemed to issue from the Jianguomen area near Bei-jing’s Tiananmen Square kept Luo wide awake the rest of the night.

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Luo Yu and his mother that military vehicles were burning in the streets.

It was gunfire I heard in the night, Luo thought to himself. Later that day, before boarding his scheduled flight to Paris for a military exhibition, a state media broadcast confirmed Luo’s suspi-cion – the PLA had opened fire on the pro-democracy Chinese students and citizens who had occupied Tiananmen Square for about 7 weeks.

Luo Yu, now 71, had endured the ravages of the Party on his fam-ily during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Continued on Pg 6

BLuo Yu, son of revolutionary Chinese Communist Party leader Luo Ruiqing, in Harrisburg, US Pennsylvania, on Dec 12, 2015.

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