Xi Remakes Internet in China’s Year of Blogging Dangerously

Last August, President Xi Jinping gathered his propaganda chiefs in Beijing to rally them against a force that long vexed China’s ruling party: the Internet.

“We need to make online public opinion the top priority in our propaganda work,” Xi said, according to excerpts published on official websites for the first time this month. The Communist Party must “seize the initiative on this battleground of public opinion as soon as we can, and must not be marginalized.”