A top economist has joined the growing list of China’s elite to have disappeared from public life after criticizing Xi Jinping, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Zhu Hengpeng served as deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) for around a decade.
CASS is a state research think tank that reports directly to China’s cabinet. Chen Daoyin, a former associate professor at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, described it as a “body to formulate party ideology to support the leadership.”
According to the Journal, the 55-year-old disappeared shortly after remarking on China’s sluggish economy and criticizing Xi’s leadership in a private group on WeChat.
Ah, I was wondering when you’d show up. The second link is paywalled, and the first says nothing of substance other than vague hand-waving about the problems somehow being dealt with in due course. Not only that, but it fails to mention how, even if that were to work, China would keep up with countries that also can do the hand-wavey stuff but with the added benefit of a healthy population curve.
Imagine being so computer illiterate as not to be able to paste a link into the archive to get around the paywall. Certainly explains why you’re such an ignoramus. 😂