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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

l festivities or were part of his presidential transition." PPP Funds Went To Firm Identified In Ukraine Money-Laundering Lawsuit. Bloomberg (7/6, Farrell, 4.73M) reports, "A company accused of helping launder millions of dollars from Ukraine a decade ago is among the apparent recipients of U.S. virus

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

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fed-banks-chinaconstruction/u-s-fed-raps-china-construction -bank-over-money-laundering-idUSKCNOPV1P920150722. 39 Farrell, Greg. “China’s AgBank Fined $215 Million for Hiding Transactions.” Bloomberg. November 4, 2016. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-04/c

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Times (7/12, Buckley, 18.61M) reports Xu Zhangrun, "an outspoken Chinese law professor who has denounced the Communist Party's harsh policies under Xi Jinping," was released from detention on Sunday after a week in jail. Xu has been "one of the few Chinese academics willing to openly and bluntly criticize

head for three and a half years." Op-Ed: Samantha Power's Unmasking Efforts Must Be Exposed. In a commentary in the Daily Caller (7/11, 716K),Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research at Judicial Watch, wrote, "This week Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit against the State Department seek