When Professor Xu published his essay, he warned that he was likely to be punished; he said he had already been suspended from work, lost his position as a professor, and had āfreedoms curtailedā over critiques published nearly a year earlier.
āI can now all too easily predict that I will be subjected to new punishments; indeed, this may well even be the last piece I write,ā he wrote at the end of his latest essay.
Friends say that, since publication, Xuās account has been suspended on WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, and they have been unable to get in touch with him for days. Most believe he has not been detained, and is at home in Beijing, but his name has been scrubbed from Weibo, and only a few articles from several years ago showing up on the countryās biggest search engine, Baidu. Calls to his mobile phone went unanswered on Friday.
In a further reminder of the governmentās strict controls, two citizen journalists who were reporting from the epicentre of Chinaās coronavirus outbreak have vanished this week, apparently detained.
āThis may be the last piece I writeā: prominent Xi critic has internet cut after house arrest
Bonus:
The cruise ship had been shunned at port after port for fear it might carry the coronavirus, but when the Westerdam arrived in Cambodia on Thursday, the prime minister greeted its passengers with flowers.
Amid assurances that the ship was disease free, hundreds of elated passengers disembarked. Some went sightseeing, visiting beaches and restaurants and getting massages. Others traveled on to destinations around the world.
One, however, did not make it much farther than the thermal scanners at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia. The passenger, an American, was stopped on Saturday, and later tested positive for the coronavirus.
On Sunday, with passengers already headed for destinations on at least three continents, health officials were scrambling to determine how a big a problem they now have ā and how to stop it from getting bigger.
āWe anticipated glitches, but I have to tell you I didnāt anticipate one of this magnitude,ā said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
With more than a thousand passengers from the Westerdam headed for home, Dr. Schaffner said, it may be harder than ever to keep the coronavirus outbreak contained to China. [ā¦]
More than 140 passengers from the ship flew to Malaysia, and all but the American woman who tested positive and her husband were eventually allowed to continue on to their destinations, including the United States, the Netherlands and Australia, officials said. Over 1,000 other passengers took charter flights to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and were in various stages of transit home, the cruise line said.
Coronavirus Infection Found After Cruise Ship Passengers Disperse
The government will protect you, because they CARE!
āI can now all too easily predict that I will be subjected to new punishments; indeed, this may well even be the last piece I write,ā he wrote at the end of his latest essay.
Friends say that, since publication, Xuās account has been suspended on WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, and they have been unable to get in touch with him for days. Most believe he has not been detained, and is at home in Beijing, but his name has been scrubbed from Weibo, and only a few articles from several years ago showing up on the countryās biggest search engine, Baidu. Calls to his mobile phone went unanswered on Friday.
In a further reminder of the governmentās strict controls, two citizen journalists who were reporting from the epicentre of Chinaās coronavirus outbreak have vanished this week, apparently detained.
āThis may be the last piece I writeā: prominent Xi critic has internet cut after house arrest
Bonus:
The cruise ship had been shunned at port after port for fear it might carry the coronavirus, but when the Westerdam arrived in Cambodia on Thursday, the prime minister greeted its passengers with flowers.
Amid assurances that the ship was disease free, hundreds of elated passengers disembarked. Some went sightseeing, visiting beaches and restaurants and getting massages. Others traveled on to destinations around the world.
One, however, did not make it much farther than the thermal scanners at the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia. The passenger, an American, was stopped on Saturday, and later tested positive for the coronavirus.
On Sunday, with passengers already headed for destinations on at least three continents, health officials were scrambling to determine how a big a problem they now have ā and how to stop it from getting bigger.
āWe anticipated glitches, but I have to tell you I didnāt anticipate one of this magnitude,ā said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
With more than a thousand passengers from the Westerdam headed for home, Dr. Schaffner said, it may be harder than ever to keep the coronavirus outbreak contained to China. [ā¦]
More than 140 passengers from the ship flew to Malaysia, and all but the American woman who tested positive and her husband were eventually allowed to continue on to their destinations, including the United States, the Netherlands and Australia, officials said. Over 1,000 other passengers took charter flights to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and were in various stages of transit home, the cruise line said.
Coronavirus Infection Found After Cruise Ship Passengers Disperse
The government will protect you, because they CARE!
