Eventually, the businessman was released, and the politician, a retired Communist Party secretary, went to prison, though not before his supporters attacked Liu outside the courthouse. The departure of Liu meant investigative journalism would never be the same, a social media account run by Chinese reporters declared. “There is hardly any reporting in China now,” said Zhan Jiang, a former professor of journalism at Beijing’s Foreign Studies University. “We have returned to the propaganda of the Mao era.”At the China Youth Daily, Liu rapidly proved adept at unveiling the corrupt links between politicians and businessmen. “In the trade war, when Trump said China had withdrawn from the agreement, there is no way the Chinese media can say what China retreated from.

Source: bd News24 June 08, 2019 17:03 UTC