Hu Shuli: China’s muckraker-in-chief

Hu Shuli has used her position as a respected financial commentator to push the boundaries of free speech.

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Hu Shuli: politically savvy
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For much of her long career, Hu Shuli has used her position as a respected financial commentator to push the boundaries of free speech. "If it's not absolutely forbidden," the editor-in-chief of Caixin Media once observed, "we do it." Hu shook up China's media landscape with investigative pieces on corruption and fraud she has long been known as the country's "muckraker-in-chief", notes Forbes. Take Caixin's spat with Anbang, for example.

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