China Persecuted its own Global Times journalist Hu Xijin

[BoonTiong]

Former Global Times top editor Hu Xijin goes dark on social media after now-deleted article on China’s economic strategy​

At the heart of the matter is a now-deleted article by Mr Hu, weighing in on the outcomes of the recent third plenum. He had written that the omission of a phrase long enshrining the role of the state sector in China’s economy showed that the country hoped to “achieve true equality between the private and the state-owned economy”.

A screengrab from a video of former Global Times editor Hu Xijin taken from his WeChat account. (Image: WeChat/Hu Xijin)

 

[BoonTiong]

SINGAPORE: Prolific Chinese nationalistic commentator Hu Xijin has gone silent on social media after publishing an article analysing China’s economic strategy, in an indication of the heightened sensitivity around discussions on the country’s economy.

The former editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times was banned from posting on social media after he wrote controversial comments about the world's second-largest economy, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Aug 1), citing a “person familiar with the matter”. Neither the entity behind the purported ban nor its length was specified.

 

[BoonTiong]

At the heart of the matter is a now-deleted article Mr Hu posted on his WeChat account on Jul 22, weighing in on the outcomes of the third plenum, a reform-focused meeting by the upper echelons of China’s Communist Party (CCP).

The top-level gathering took place last month, yielding a resolution document that was long on commitments but short on specifics, although analysts singled out hints that President Xi Jinping is seeking a fourth term as China’s helmsman.

According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP), Mr Hu wrote that the resolution left out a phrase that had long enshrined the role of the state sector in the country’s economy.

He argued that the omission of the phrase “public ownership playing a dominant role” was a “historic change” that showed China hoped to “achieve true equality between the private and the state-owned economy”.

“Chinese society’s understanding, attitude and narrative of various ownership relations will have a big step forward,” Mr Hu wrote.

 

[laksaboy]

Communists always are the most vicious to the own comrades, it's the same in other communist countries, not just China.

 

[mojito]

Communists always are the most vicious to the own comrades, it's the same in other communist countries, not just China.

Glober lists very kind to those who volted them?

 

[BoonTiong]

I suspect this guy is wearing wig 假发

 

[laksaboy]

He is something similar to the Tiong version of Calvin Cheng, but instead of posting shit on Facebook, he writes articles for Global Times.

 

[Chase]

Why his hair so orr-biang?
Is it a wig?

 

[BoonTiong]

Why his hair so orr-biang?
Is it a wig?

Wig , 假发