Chinese Academic Disciplined After Criticizing Xi and Communist Party

A paramilitary policeman guards outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 12, 2013. Feng Li/Getty Images

Beijing authorities announced on Aug. 17 that Cai Xia, who taught politics at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) before her retirement, was disciplined for making remarks with “serious political problems and that damage the country’s reputation.”

She was expelled from the Party and had her retirement benefits revoked.