Beijing’s crackdown on a celebrated, state-owned media outlet shows just how far Chinese censors have gone.
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Bibek Bhandari was on holiday at home in Nepal for the first time in two years when he received an ominous text message from his manager at Sixth Tone, an English-language online publication in China. “Things are getting serious,” it said.
The keywords featured in Sixth Tone's 'Year in Review 2022'. Credit: Sixth Tone
Several weeks before, on one of the last days of December 2022, the Shanghai-based outlet had run a year-end review, reflecting on the year’s biggest headlines. There
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