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Translation: Party Watchdogs Blast Former Cyberczar

The Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced on Tuesday that former cyberczar Lu Wei has been expelled from the CCP and from public office, and faces likely criminal prosecution for bribery. Lu was deputy chief of the Party’s Central Propaganda Department and the founding head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, established by Xi Jinping in late 2013 as "an important pillar of […] the state’s application of cutting-edge