Two books translated to English with lectures and speeches from the former-president’s Jiang Zemin are among the official releases in the Frankfurt Book Fair. The largest commercial event of the literary world has China as the honored country, what already provokes enough controversy _ China censures about 600 books a year, foreign publications are forbidden of entering and several writers were arrested by political subjects and freedom of expression.

Critical Chinese writers from the communist regime of Peking have been “uninvited” to round tables and debates in the Fair of Frankfurt, due to the Chinese government‘s pressure. China already threatened to boycott the event if dissidents were invited.

About 2.000 editors, writers, artists and Chinese journalists will participate at the Fair – the Chinese government invested US$ 15 million in its participation, the first in a great international cultural event.

But that little regime tolerance to critics demonstrates the intention of the powerful communist regime to exporting the censorship for other parts of the world. In August, the Chinese government tried to impede the Festival of Movies of Melbourne (Australia) to exhibit a documentary on Rebiya Kadeer, the uigur exile leader that accuses China of committing “cultural genocide” against uigur etnia.

When the festival maintained the exhibition, Chinese Hackers attacked the event site the and the Chinese government, then, canceled official missions to Australia as retaliation. Chinese film directors, pressed by the Ministry of the Culture, canceled the participation in Melbourne too

Via: Folha.