Dictatorship forcing registration and mandatory ‘Marxism’ loyalty test for Chinese news reporters

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China will require its 250,000 journalists to pass a ‘Marxism test’

GlobalPost – A newspaper vendor looks out from her booth on a street in Shanghai in January 2013. After a year in which Chinese media tested the government’s restrictions, the Party is now requiring journalists to pass a Marxism exam in order to keep working.