NetEase News Calls Out Global Times
When Hu Xijin, chief editor of the government state-run Global Times, predicted Mo Yan would win the Nobel prize in literature last week, he warned the public to brace itself for the verdict, to “keep a ‘calm heart’ about it” and remember “whose ‘turn’ it is.” Once Mo Yan won, Hu embraced the politi ...
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Indeed, the Party-state depends more on untold millions of cynical fence-sitters in the populace to maintain the autocratic system than it depends on the fervent support of a relatively small number of avid advocates of one-party authoritarian rule. Qiángtóu cao is the very opposite of a “poisonous weed”–it is the Party’s favorite weed hands down, for it bends to whatever wind the higher-ups in the Party may be blowing.