China removed the head of a biweekly magazine and suspended its editor over publication of an interview with a Taiwanese historian. The historian was quoted saying that Sun Yat-sen was ready to cede Chinese territory to Japan in return for military help in defeating a local warlord. The historian also said the Communist Party’s history was not always factual.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said a number of journalists had been punished this year for the content in publications but that the punishments were thinly disguised as suspensions, sabbaticals, or resignations. -db
From the Committee to Protect Journalists, August 19, 2011.