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Tsinghua University Removes Xi Critic Xu Zhangrun

At The Financial Times, Christian Shepherd reports the removal from teaching duties of Tsinghua law professor Xu Zhangrun in apparent retaliation for his vocal criticism of Xi Jinping’s leadership. [Updated on March 25, 2019 at 22:11 PST: Xu was reportedly not fired outright, as this post originally stated.] The most prominent example was a 10,000-character essay published last July by the liberal Unirule Instuture, and translated in full by Geremie Barmé at China