Chinese economist Zhu Hengpeng disappeared after criticizing Xi Jinping, the WSJ reported. He reportedly made comments on China's sluggish economy.

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.

  • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    125·
    3 months ago

    From the position of your acceptance of Uyghur genocide and pretending that China is anywhere near the left, it’s astonishing you are comfortable accusing anyone else of bad faith.

    There’s simply no way to have a serious discussion with you regarding anything about China. That’s why you have chosen the lemmy.ml instance, it is a hivemind of like thinkers all sheltered from the truth by fragile admins.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
      89·
      3 months ago

      Oh, look at that, you can’t provide a link. Because you’re a liar. And once again my rule is proven true.

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        64·
        3 months ago

        I don’t feel like wandering your comment history looking for what you’ve had to say about China’s treatment of Uyghurs. Unless you’re not the same Objection I saw posting anime cartoons?

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
          85·
          3 months ago

          That’s me.

          I find it pretty convenient how you can so distinctly remember me praising something, but you can’t remember anything else about that conversation that would allow you to find it in the search function. Are you sure we can rely on your memory? Because I don’t remember ever saying that and I’m pretty sure I would.

          Was this the same conversation where you were praising the Holocaust? I can’t provide any evidence that that happened because I don’t feel like wandering through your comment history, but I have a vague memory of you saying something like that, so I guess if vague memories are the standard of evidence we’re relying on, you’re looking pretty bad too.

          • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            84·
            3 months ago

            Oh, we can solve that. I’ll state for the record right now that the Holocaust is evil, rather than allow you to continue lying about that.

            Will you say the same right now about China’s treatment of the Uyghurs?

            • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
              66·
              3 months ago

              I will say right now that no genocide is praiseworthy, and that I have never praised any genocide in my life.

              • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                74·
                3 months ago

                Right, you won’t. You will prevaricate. You deny the China is doing anything to the Uyghur people, which is your form of supporting it. Thank you for proving me correct.

                • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  65·
                  3 months ago

                  TIL all this time that I was calling myself an Atheist, I was actually praising God.

                  • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    73·
                    3 months ago

                    Might as well. You already praise a “socialist” China that objectively doesn’t exist. AFAICT that religion you’ve subscribed to is the main reason you are denying the human rights abuses they are committing.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        64·
        3 months ago

        Oh, you want links? I can give you links.

        Here you are linking to an article saying it isn’t genocide: https://lemmy.world/comment/12211000

        Here you are refusing to accept the genocide is happening despite a huge number of links: https://lemmy.world/comment/11959309

        And as a bonus here’s some trollish avoidance of admitting that the Tienanmen Square massacre happened: https://lemmy.world/comment/12256833

        You do know there’s a search function, right?

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mlEnglish
          63·
          3 months ago

          None of those links show me “praising” a genocide. That remains a bold faced, blatant lie.

          Tbh, I find that this sort of casual lying is so common in spaces like .world that nobody even seems to care. Maybe it’s a neurotypical thing, where you’re allowed to tell lies so long as you’re lying about the out group. Frankly, when people don’t even acknowledge such things as lies, I have to wonder if they’re even capable of being truthful or acting in good faith.

          Those “huge number of sources” I actually went through point by point. Here’s a book from the 1930’s called 100 Authors Against Einstein which presents “a huge number of sources” claiming that Einstein’s findings regarding General Relativity were wrong. Every one of them is wrong.

          Also, I’m amazed that you’d link that last one as if it makes me look bad. The person was caught in saying something wrong so they abruptly pivoted to completely unrelated topics in the most textbook example of Whataboutism that I’ve ever seen in my life, so obviously I refused to indulge them.

          Still waiting on a link for your original claim btw.

          Also btw I think your first link is to the wrong comment.