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Actually, it's pretty surprising. Western journalists/academics have always been given a fair degree of latitude for reporting inside of China as long as they o

Actually, it's pretty surprising. Western journalists/academics have always been given a fair degree of latitude for reporting inside of China as long as they only wrote in English for foreign press. There's been an active contingent of China Twitter loudly saying for the past few months that academics and journalists should be speaking out more about Xinjiang because the likelihood of visa revoking has been vastly overstated. Recent reporting seems to have touched a special nerve and the reactions are far more extreme than other negative China stories that journalists have weathered in the past.

kevin_b_er 8y ago
China has changed their thinking, literally. Their constitution no longer has term limits for their leader and the constitution was altered with their leader's personal philosophy. Xi Jinping, and thus China, no longer tolerates dissent. Go ahead, refer to Taiwan the wrong way even outside of China. You'll find a small army calling you out, much like any public criticism of Trump on twitter brings out a strange and chaotic assortment of random accounts that spout a variety of common talking points. If you're a company with a good bit of money in China, dissent is dangerous because China is getting quite skilled at using finance as a means for exerting global control. Not that this is shocking, the US did so for decades and still does so to a mighty degree, but it doesn't try to financially destroy you for criticizing the US.