More than 30m Chinese were in for a surprise yesterday: the country’s most-followed Twitter-like microblog quoted Alexander Solzhenitsyn. “One word of truth outweighs the whole world,” wrote the celebrity actress Yao Chen.
Ms Yao sent the former Soviet dissident’s words with the logo of Southern Weekend, the paper respected as the vanguard of Chinese investigative journalism and for its probing stories but now involved in a rare open fight with censors.
Her post marks a warning to China’s new leadership under Xi Jinping, the new Communist party chief who took over from Hu Jintao in November: The country Mr Xi is expected to rule for the next decade wants more than just steadily increasing income.
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