BEIJING: Chinese Communist officials will impose “severe” penalties on a property tycoon who criticised overbearing state control of the media to his tens of millions of online followers, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Ren Zhiqiang, nicknamed “the Cannon”, developed a huge audience – he had 37 million followers on Sina Weibo alone – with his provocative opinions and blunt defences of economic inequality.
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