Amnesia machine: how China erases disasters from public memory
In 2022, a China Eastern Boeing 737 hit the ground in a near-vertical nosedive, killing 132 people. Two years later, there has been no official explanation for the tragedy, and the crash site in Guangxi remains unmarked. It is as if the disaster has been hidden in a memory hole.
David Rennie, The Economist’s Beijing bureau chief, and Alice Su, our senior China correspondent, ask: how does Xi Jinping’s China make even large events vanish from public discourse?
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