There is a series of set moves in the playbook of totalitarian regimes to suppress dissent or silence inconvenient voices. All have been on display in China as Xi Jinping’s regime seeks to eliminate any alternative view to that of the ‘Great Helmsman’ of the nation. The events surrounding the tennis star, Peng Shuai, highlight the most obvious: people simply ‘disappear’.
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