Gao Yu’s Real Crime
One evening in June 2013, I received a call from a man who identified himself as an official for the Chinese Communist Party’s Propaganda Department in Beijing. He asked me to publish an internal party directive on Mingjing, a Chinese-language news portal I run out of New York.
Western media had already reported on the key segments of the directive, known as Document No.9. Many analysts saw it as President Xi Jinping’s attempt to adopt a traditional leftist and anti-West agenda.
The caller claimed that Document No.9 was merely a routine directive that analyzed new political trends and that journalists should not read too much into it.… Seguir leyendo »