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Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

Two Chinese Communist Party-controlled newspapers published an indirect warning to Hillary Clinton not to criticize China during her campaign for president.

A commentary published Friday in both the official Party newspaper the People’s Daily and the xenophobic Global Times predicted Clinton “won’t be nice to China, at least during her campaign.” “Clinton doesn’t want to be seen as ‘soft’ on China,” the report by New York-based Global Times correspondent Rong Xiaoqing states.

The report then went on to quote from Clinton’s 2014 book Hard Choices, in which Clinton called on Asian states to form an alliance against China and criticized China’s state-control censorship, or the Great Fire Wall. The book also mentioned Clinton’s confrontation with Chinese leader Hu Jintao about the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama. …

The commentary then urges Clinton to heed the advice of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, whose new book, Dealing with China, calls for accommodating the emerging communist economic superpower. “Clinton should keep in mind a warning from Henry Paulson,” the article states. “When asked … what he’d like to hear the presidential candidates say about China, the former U.S. treasury secretary quipped: ‘I’d like them to say as little as possible.’”

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