Critics silenced ahead of China's move to end Xi term limits
March 11, 2018
BEIJING (AP) — The day China's ruling Communist Party unveiled a proposal to allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely as Mao Zedong did a generation ago, Ma Bo was so shaken he couldn't sleep.
So Ma, a renowned writer, wrote a social media post urging the party to remember the history of unchecked one-man rule that ended in catastrophe.
"History is regressing badly," Ma thundered in his post. "As a Chinese of conscience, I cannot stay silent!"
Censors silenced him anyway, swiftly wiping his post from the internet.
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