China State Media Make Feisty Start in New Year

China's state media released a series of editorial and opinion pieces in recent days that featured some blunter-than-usual commentaries on censorship and the government’s tight control over news. Earlier in the week, when Chinese officials confirmed a North Korean soldier had crossed the border and killed four residents in China’s northeast, the Global Times, a tabloid newspaper owned by the Communist Party’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, was not pleased. In an editorial, the...

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