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s who dared to openly and persistently criticize President Xi Jinping's leadership." According to the Post, "X

Xu Zhangrun, silencing one of the last voices within China's besieged intellectual circles who dared to openly and persistently criticize President Xi Jinping's leadership." According to the Post, "Xu's arrest in Beijing's outskirts came five months after he published a lengthy essay pleading with politic

olitics." The New York Times (7/6, Buckley, 18.61M) reports Xu "came to wider prominence after publishing an essay in 2018 that, without naming Mr. Xi, condemned his government for stifling even the narrow space for debate that the party had previously tolerated." Uighurs Urge ICC To Take Action A

ssions." Prominent Chinese Professor Critical Of Xi Arrested. The Washington Post (7/6, Shih, 14.2M) reports that on Monday, Chinese police "seized Tsinghua University professor and essayist Xu Zhangrun, silencing one of the last voices within China's besieged intellectual circles who dared to openly and persisten

only an interest in the welfare of China but also a loosely defined cultural, and even political, allegiance to the so-called Motherland (#4). Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, diaspora Chinese have been called on to help achieve the Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation—a summons that places growing pressure on eth

ent Xi Jinping, first at Mar-a-Lago and then at the Beijing summit, Congress took a wait-and-see posture. But as his own ardor for a partnership with Xi cooled and his administration became disenchanted with the idea of finding an easy new “engagement” policy, momentum began to shift. Soon Congress wa

ffice in 2017 and actively began courting Chinese President Xi Jinping, first at Mar-a-Lago and then at the Beij

k tanks operate real satellite centers in Beijing, and one does so in Hong Kong. Both Beijing centers are cohosted by, and located on, the campus of Tsinghua University. One has a robust program of research by Chinese fellows, brings in people from the think tank’s other centers, has a young ambassador program for Am

censorship of views opposed by the Party and stressed the necessity of, in the words of one piece in 2015, “properly telling China’s story” (echoing Xi Jinping’s instructions). And Beijing’s efforts have had some successes. Ranked the number-five Chinese website in the United States, http://backchina.com wa

reatened or exercised Section 7 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020568 110 economic retaliation. For example, in June 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that Xi warned a group of global CEOs that China would retaliate with “qualitative measures” targeted at their companies, if the United States did not back o

ce President Joe Biden met with then Chinese vice president Xi Jinping to discuss China’s quota on foreign films

t Upset Employees.” New York Times. June 1, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentagon-project -maven.html; Wiggers, Kyle. “Tsinghua University Plans to Open Al Research Center in China, Names Google’s Al Chief as Advisor.” VentureBeat. June 29, 2018. https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/28/tsingh