Sinosphere: Beetle Is Named in Honor of Xi Jinping, but China Aims to Squash the News

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - 16:19 in Mathematics & Economics

The taxonomic gesture appeared to irritate propaganda bosses, who moved fast to block references to the “Xi beetle” from the nation’s heavily censored internet

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