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<title>Stop complaining, Hu Xijin: The internet’s silence is of his own making</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Two recent posts by nationalist commentator and former Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin have reignited debate over free expression and censorship in China’s increasingly muted online environment. Hu, long regarded as a fiery defender of the Party line, took to WeChat and Weibo earlier this month to lament what he called a “collective silence” on Chinese social media — a state of affairs he attributed to bureaucratic formalism, self-censorship, employer pressure, and an intolerant online culture. ]]></description>
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