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Chinese Begin to Vent Discontent With President Xi and His Policies

Public rancor over trade tensions with the U.S., a sluggish economy and public-health and financial scandals prompt unease among academics and ordinary Chinese



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By Chun Han Wong
Aug. 15, 2018 12:34 p.m. ET


BEIJING—Signs of unease with President Xi Jinping’s leadership have emerged amid public rancor over China’s trade tensions with the U.S., a sluggish economy and public-health and financial scandals.

In online essays, social-media posts and rare public protests, academics and ordinary Chinese have vented misgivings about Mr. Xi and the Communist Party-run bureaucracy, despite tightening curbs on public speech. Some criticism has been directed at the president and his policies, others at perceived government failings.

Hundreds of alumni from the prestigious Tsinghua University petitioned for the removal of a professor they accused of “misleading” officials and citizens with triumphalist claims of China’s superiority over the U.S.—a complaint that implies Beijing mishandled ties with Washington.

Chinese academics warned that Mr. Xi’s ambitious programs for developing Chinese industry and building global trade infrastructure could alienate other countries. Another Tsinghua professor penned a lengthy essay denouncing Mr. Xi’s leadership, particularly his moves to quash dissent and scrap term limits on his presidency.

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