The Chinese government has been wary of such groups for years. One prominent official gave a taste of the government’s thinking earlier last week. In Qiushi, a Chinese Communist Party journal, Zhou Benshun (周本順), the secretary-general of the party’s political and legislative affairs commission, wrote that China must “guard against being misled to the point of falling into the trap of so-called ‘civil society’ devised by certain Western countries.”
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JONATHAN ANSFIELD
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