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Good for Alibaba? SCMP Quashes Column on Xi-linked Tycoon

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Jul 24, 2017
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The steady erosion of the journalistic independence of the South China Morning Post, once the region’s most influential English-language daily, was demonstrated last week when the paper’s editors pulled an article linking an investor in Hong Kong’s Peninsula Hotel Group to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s chief of staff.

The article, by long-time Money Mat…

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