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Home> Archive> 2024> Volume 14, Number 4, 2024
IJSSH 2024 Vol.14(4): 155-160
doi: 10.18178/ijssh.2024.14.4.1209

Xi Jinping’s Agenda and the Future of the Nation: Speaking Silence Within the Great Firewall

Huai Bao
Davidson College, NC, USA
Email: hubao@davidson.edu

Manuscript received July 24, 2023; revised September 9, 2023; accepted March 6, 2024; published July 19, 2024.

Abstract—Chinese Internet users in the PRC are confined in the world’s largest “Internet prison”, with certain website contents blocked, blog entries and forum messages censored and deleted, and social media platforms banned or strictly monitored.  Since Xi Jinping assumed the presidency, the CCP has been less tolerant of dissent than Xi’s predecessors. Under the “Chinese-style democracy”, China is becoming even more undemocratic, and the intellectual communities in the country have largely chosen to keep quiet on one hand while speaking silence in subtle, alternative manners on the other hand. Without any more resistance against suppressing dissent, how far can this second most populous country in the world go with such limited freedom of information and expression? Are the elites no longer concerned about the nation’s future? This paper particularly examines individual experiences in Chinese media censorship and explores the mixed public attitudes and mentality behind the silence of the Chinese intellectual communities. 

Keywords—China, internet censorship, democracy

Cite: Huai Bao, "Xi Jinping’s Agenda and the Future of the Nation: Speaking Silence Within the Great Firewall," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 155-160, 2024.

Copyright © 2024 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).

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