China’s Tightening Censorship Seen As Breeding Resistance

A newly released report by rights group Freedom House says that while repression and censorship by China’s Communist Party has intensified over the past two years since President Xi Jinping began taking over, so has resistance to government efforts to exert control.   In the report entitled The Politburo’s Predicament, that was released Tuesday, Freedom House argues that the growing resistance has required even more intense government crackdowns.   Chinese authorities have long...

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