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Such is Xi Jinping’s political dominance in China – one dissident called his rule a kind of “exquisite totalitarianism” – that any notion he might one day step down barely registers these days. Xi appears to have an iron grip on the ruling Chinese Communist Party, the military and the security services. State and private business empires have learnt the hard way not to oppose his edicts. His diplomats style themselves as “wolf warriors”, aggressively prosecuting foreign policy. However, Xi’s drive for power has far-reaching consequences, not just for China, but given the co...

AFP Chinese government censors have prevented social media users from sharing an article penned by former premier Wen Jiabao that appeared to take a subtle sideswipe at ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping. The eulogy from Wen to his mother, who died recently, was published in the Macau Herald weekly newspaper on Friday, and has since appeared in full on the social media platform WeChat. Soon afterwards, it had been blocked from being shared or retweeted. "In my mind, China should be a country full of fairness and justice, always with a respect for the will o...

 E-Mail IMAGE: a, PE rates at endogenous on-target and off-target sites. b, Experimental design and work flow of whole-genome sequencing. c, d, Numbers of SNVs (c) and Indels (d) identified by WGS... view more  Credit: IGDB Prime editing (PE), a "search-and-replace" CRISPR-based genome editing technique, has great potential for gene therapy and agriculture. It can introduce desired base conversions, deletions, insertions, and combination edits into target genomic sites. Prime editors have been successfully applied in animals and plants, but their off-target effects, which can be a maj...

Bellwether of China's elite

Chinese Leader Xi Jinping Signals Return to the Mao Era Analysis April 4, 2021, Easter Day, was the same day as the Ching Ming Festival in China, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, the day when the Chinese honor ancestors and families gather to pay respect to the dead. On this day, the Chinese regime quietly opened the grave of former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing, but blocked that of former General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who stepped down because of his opposition to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. This opening of one and closing of another released a...