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Further to the "rule of law" in China, still another Chinese dissident-journalist allegedly killed by the CCP security apparatus. According to RSF, "China ranks 179th out of 180 in the 2023 RSF World Press Freedom Index and is the world's largest captor of journalists and press freedom defenders with at least 123 detained." And still we drool and grovel for the China "market." To borrow from a folk song of years gone by, "When will we ever learn?"

https://rsf.org/en/beaten-death-state-security-rsf-shocked-gruesome-murder-independent-journalist-china

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"In fact, the “list system” had been included as a priority for national governance in the Plan for Building China Under the Rule of Law (2020-2025), released in January 2021, and in the political report to the 20th National Congress one year ago the role of “leading cadres” as model examples (示范带头作用) was mentioned as a priority."

I wonder how the CCP can speak of the rule of law without blushing. The party and XJP are increasingly parodies of themselves. If they weren't so capable of breaking things, lots of things, and around the world, it would be comic.

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No clear explanation yet re: how was it that LS and especially QF failed at upholding Party discipline, especially if as argued on this piece “discipline” is upholding XJP Though on RoL (and I assume his position as core of CPC). In what way did they fail at this? We only have rumors and assessments that look more like educated guesses… I struggle with understanding how news in official media are taken as a tacit recognition of internal conflict: what’s the leadership’s rationale behind this? Especially when we admit that the messaging is very cryptic… amazingly assuming that all the population has political discourse acumen…

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