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By Dr. Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com

Efforts by the Xi Jinping administration to suppress embarrassing stories about his career in Fujian Province in the late 1980s and 1990s were behind two of the most brazen overseas acts of Chinese state-security agents.

In October this year, four Chinese state-security agents kidnapped Hong Kong-based publisher Gui Minhai when the latter was spending time in his vacation apartment in Pattaya, Thailand. Even though Gui has Swedish citizenship, Thai authorities apparently allowed these agents to spirit him back to China for interrogation.

Gui, who has been held incommunicado since October, is believed to be detained in the Chinese capital. A mainland-educated intellectual, Gui founded his publishing house, the Giant Current Group, in Hong Kong about ten years ago. Working under him are more than 20 writers who are specialists in high-level Chinese politics.

Giant Current used to put out up to ten books a month, most of which are about political gossip and factional skullduggery within the Chinese Communist Party. They are eagerly sought after by some of the 47 million mainland tourists who visit Hong Kong every year.

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