http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/11/does-hu-xijin-favor-free-speech/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Sun, 19 May 2013 00:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/11/does-hu-xijin-favor-free-speech/#comment-60178 “In Any Authoritarian Country”: Subversive Chinese Readings of Kim Jong-un’s Purges « SINO-NK Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:16:36 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=147298#comment-60178 [...] even if Hu Xijin, one of China’s top 100 opinion-makers, was pushing the boundaries for free speech in the PRC, the piece never would have seen the light of day if it were not in some sense useful to [...]

]]> http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/11/does-hu-xijin-favor-free-speech/#comment-60174 Will Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:51:38 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=147298#comment-60174 Seems that Hu Xijin has sent out a trial balloon in the direction of slightly less suppression of free speech on China’s internet. At the same time, with the Party monopolizing government and the media, a small step in the direction of fewer restrictions on speech could easily be reversed at any time by government fiat on the whim of a Party oligarch.

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