X Marks the Spot
Elon Musk’s new messaging app was built with Chinese users in mind. It was censored before it ever reached them, with related news coverage from state media also pulled down.
Pu’er Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
The Pu’er Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨普洱市委員會) is the leading political organ of the Chinese Communist Party in Pu’er (普洱), a prefecture-level city in southern Yunnan Province. As with all municipal-level party committees in China, it exercises authority over local governance, personnel appointments, economic planning, and ideological work within its jurisdiction, operating above — and directing — the Pu’er Municipal People’s Government. The city was known as Simao (思茅) from 1950 — following the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War — until January 2007, when China’s State Council approved its renaming to Pu’er. According to China’s Seventh National Population Census conducted in November 2020, the city had a permanent resident population of approximately 2.4 million. Pu’er is predominantly known as a major production center for Pu’er tea (普洱茶) and as the source of the overwhelming majority of China’s domestically grown arabica coffee — with the US Department of Agriculture recording that 99 percent of China’s arabica output originated from the Pu’er region in 2020–21.
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