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China's live-streamers harnessed e-commerce, social media and personal star power to fuel the rise of a multibillion-dollar industry in recent years but the influencers are now targets in Chinese President Xi Jinping's common prosperity campaign, a wide-ranging crackdown that is bringing celebrities and Internet companies to heel in the name of addressing inequality.
China has become much more aggressive in the borders towards the east and west and in its relations with other states since the rise of Xi Jinping as President in 2012, an Australian foreign policy expert has said and noted that the world is heading for a prolonged period of bipolar competition in the Indo-Pacific region.
Chinese media in recent years has given up its pretence of journalism and exists solely to elevate President Xi Jinping's status and attack critics of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a media report said.