By Oiwan Lam and Jack Hu Many Chinese online opinion leaders and celebrities were silenced following the ‘crackdown on rumors’ in 2013, and netizens have become less vocal in speaking out against the disappearance of dissenters on social media, seeing the repression of dissidents as a part of the new political order under President Xi Jinping. Yet the recent … Continue reading Why China’s clampdown on Ren Zhiqiang matters