Chang Ping on Media Censorship and Its Future
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping.
Why does it seem like censorship is getting worse?
You are correct. Over the past deca ...
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Chang Ping reminds us that the Hu-Wen oligarchy actually admired the North Korean oligarchy’s hard line against dissent and for censorship and determinedly built up the Great Firewall with help from Cisco and other tech corporations. Wen Jiabao’s occasional vague calls for political reform were all lacking in substance and specifics and merely spread false hopes that the oligarchy might be capable of reforming itself–an illusion. This is merely a component of the Party’s overall scheme of impression management and stability-maintenance propaganda.
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