rexi<p>(dark times for Chinese perestroika)<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/25/china-economist-zhu-hengpeng-disappearance-xi-jinping-wechat-comments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2024/sep</span><span class="invisible">/25/china-economist-zhu-hengpeng-disappearance-xi-jinping-wechat-comments</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ZhuHengpeng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZhuHengpeng</span></a>, 55, believed to have made disparaging remarks about China’s economy, and…the Chinese leader…in…<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WeChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeChat</span></a>…Zhu was subsequently detained in April…</p><p>Zhu worked for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cass</span></a> >20 years…reportedly not been seen in public since April…</p><p>The Cass is a leading <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thinktank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thinktank</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>…under increasingly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> rule of Xi, criticism…has become increasingly frowned upon, and treated punitively.</p>