Three cartoons about the recent crackdown on the liberal media in China under Xi Jinping. In the second cartoon, by Crazy Crab, an anonymous cartoonist in China,   the character for Xi’s surname is adorned with a crown and yields a pair of shears, representing censorship. The third cartoon is by Perverted Pepper, another anonymous Chinese cartoonist  In his cartoon, the face of Santa Claus is formed by the Chinese character for “propaganda” (宣). Santa spoon-feeds feces to waiting children from a bowl being used as a toilet (to put it gently) by another figure labeled “Global Times”, a state-run Chinese newspaper: “One spoon for each person!” Santa says.

(Source: chinadigitaltimes.net)

Chinese cartoonist Crazy Crab (a pseudonym) compares the improbable escape of legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who is blind, to that of Andy Dufresne in the 1994 film “The Shawshank Redemption”. Chen Guangcheng reportedly slipped away from his well-guarded rural village on Sunday night and was driven away by activists who then transferred him to a secret location in Beijing.