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Amazon Shuts Down Reviews of Xi Jinping’s Book After Demand From Chinese Government

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Reuters.Insiders at Amazon told the news service that the company received the official demand in 2019 after negative reviews of the book were posted on Amazon’s Chinese site. “I think the issue was anything under five stars,” one person said.

Reuters also obtained a 2018 internal document that outlined several obstacles that Amazon faced to expand its operations in China. “Ideological control and propaganda is the core of the toolkit for the communist party to achieve and maintain its success,” the document reads. “We are not making judgement [sp] on whether it is right or wrong.”Another document from Amazon’s lobbying head and former Obama White House Press Sec.

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