WHILE EVERYONE IS FIXATED ON RUSSIA, CHINA’S GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER. BUT CHINESE ARE PAYING ATTENTION: How the “Xi change” in China is causing an invisible earthquake.

Nor is there safety offline. The Chinese system of human spies and informants rivals the efficiency and moral corrosiveness of the East German Stasi. My young colleagues Jack and Jill encounter this daily, as university administrators instruct them not to discuss politics in class, and the majority of students and faculty at their universities remain “silent and fearful” on all but the most banal topics. All the more striking, then, to hear about those same students and faculty breaking their silence after hearing about the “Xi change,” as Jill called it.

Interesting.