You Can Now Go to Jail in China for Criticizing Beijing’s Coronavirus Response… Chinese authorities are cracking down on negative media coverage and social media commentary about the coronavirus outbreak, threatening anyone who breaches their rules with up to seven years in jail. On Wednesday the government authorities issued an order for an article that looked at the possible negative impact of the outbreak on China’s economy to be scrubbed from the internet. The article, published by state-owned weekly news magazine Sanlian Life Week, considered what might happen to the Chinese economy if the Word Health Organization declares the Wuhan coronavirus to be a “global health emergency.” The alert, leaked to California-based monitoring group China Digital Times, is just the latest effort by Beijing to censor criticism of the outbreak. Beijing is eager to avoid a repeat of what happened … Continue reading You Can Now Go to Jail in China for Criticizing Beijing’s Coronavirus Response