As China’s Woes Mount, Xi Jinping Faces Rare Rebuke at Home (nytimes.com)

Article date: 31. July

Some Chinese friends of mine who didn't even entertain the idea of emigration before Xi's rule now began to consider moving to another country. Xi is basically reversing a lot of the reform pioneered by Deng, both in terms of economics (see his policies on bolstering state-owned businesses) and politics, under the false slogan of deepening reform.

That's an old article, written in the days when people were reading Xi's absence from newspaper front pages as a sign of turmoil. Now: https://twitter.com/QiZHAI/status/1036293006100328448

Also, that professor mentioned, Xu Zhangrun, has apparently been forced to return to China. I don't envy him, but I'm sure he knew what he was getting into. These dissidents seem to have a surprising high ability to accept their fates. Not the same guy, but an interesting read: https://chinachange.org/2018/09/16/four-years-afar/

Nobody knows anything about China. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/21/nobody-knows-anything-a...

Professor Xu is a member of the establishment, is he less likely to suffer from repressions? I would guess that this is the case.