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Xi Jinping’s recent speech about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) overseas propaganda, in which he called on Chinese officials to create a “credible, lovable, and respectable” image for the nation, has gone viral.
A newspaper consumer reads a copy of China's Africa edition of its daily newspaper in front of a news stand in the Kenyan capital on Dec. 14, 2012. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images
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He Qinglian
Author
He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
