China’s crackdown on ‘wealth-flaunting’ social media puts pressure on influencers − both on the mainland and in Taiwan − to echo the party line
- Written by Gengsong Gao, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Richmond
A woman checks her mobile phone in downtown Taipei in Taiwan.
LeoPatrizi/Getty ImagesChinese regulators are in the process of wrapping up a two-month “spring clean” of the country’s social media.
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