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Ai Weiwei’s Uncomfortable Truth About Universal Censorship

Feb 02, 2026

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When Ai Weiwei returned to Beijing in December 2025 after a decade of exile, the world’s most famous Chinese dissident did something unthinkable: he questioned whether the West had any moral authorit…

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