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● NEWS ● #SCMP #China #Censorship ☞ To protect one retired leader, China’s bungling censors turned the #PengShuai mess into a major incident damaging the reputation of the whole country https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3157505/protect-one-retired-leader-chinas-bungling-censors-turned-peng "Chinese bureaucrats’ propensity to cover up and their foolish decision"

China’s censors have only themselves to blame for the Peng Shuai mess

The high-handed, top-down approach of censorship and coercion, which works so well at home, is futile on the world stage, writes Wang Xiangwei.