CHINA-INTERNAL: MEDIA CONTROLS

 Responding to a critical article by retired Chinese real estate mogul Ren Zhiqiang aka as “Cannon Ren,”  on Chinese President Xi Jinping's  tour of China Central Television (CCTV) on February 19, 2016, where he announced new regulations for the media, Ren Zhiqiang has been subjected to strident criticism. The first article in the attack against Ren Zhiqiang entitled “Why Must Netizens Teach Ren Zhiqiang Lessons About the Party?”, appeared on Qianlong.com, a website sponsored by the Beijing Communist Party's Propaganda Department on February 23, 2016. It was authored by Li Jiming, a CCP member and former “National Excellent Teacher” who is now an official in the Organization Department of the Fengquan District Party Committee in Xinxiang, Henan. It was republished on the website of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Cyberspace Affairs and the Cyberspace Administration of China. The same day, another critique was posted on Qianlong.com titled “Where Does Ren Zhiqiang Get the Nerve to Oppose the Party?”. On February 24, commentator Wang Dehua, who writes for Xinhua, Global Times online, and China Youth Daily online, published a piece on China Youth Daily online titled “The Sinister Intentions Behind Ren Zhiqiang’s Idea of ‘Party vs. People” and on February 25, 2016, the news portal of the Party Committee and Provincial Government of Jiangsu Province published an article under the name Mao Kaiyun entitled “Ren Zhiqiang is the Shame of Over 80 million Party Members”.

 






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