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Beijing News: Defiance, Tears, and Porridge

On Wednesday, the row over censorship at the Guangdong-based Southern Weekly spread to Beijing, as its half-sister the Beijing News initially refused instructions to republish a critical Global Times editorial on the controversy. After a series of conflicting reports, it seems that the newspaper’s publisher Dai Zigeng verbally submitted his resignation in protest, but Beijing propaganda chief