(Bloomberg) — Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin said he has retired from the Communist Party-backed newspaper where he’d become one of China’s most vocal propagandists.
“I have gone through the retirement formalities and no longer serve as the editor-in-chief of the Global Times,” Hu posted on the Twitter-like platform Weibo on Thursday.
Hu added that at age 61 it was time to retire, but noted he’d work as a commentator for the newspaper.
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