Gramellini Cafe | There Was a Chinese Story: Economist Zhou Hengping Disappeared into Thin Air

I feel sickened by the bleak West into which I had the misfortune to be born, and I look around for alternative models. I have already found one very tempting one. At dinner.

Economist Zhou was investigating some inexplicable mystery, such as how the National Pension Institute would pay our pensions in five years, and was hijacked by Western intelligence services. Imagine my surprise when I learned of this. It was a harmless joke that turned him into a ghost.he wrote in a private conversation with academics in Beijing, where he assumed that leader Xi Jinping was just a mortal. But how do they spy on cell phones there too? Then we know that Xi is no ordinary human.
If anything, he is an eternal communist.

In the gloomy West, where freedom and democracy are empty words, calling a president stupid ends up on the front page. In China, it ends up nowhere, because they not only know freedom and democracy, they recognize them: just in time to make them disappear.

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