A piece published by the populist state tabloid Global Times last month said activist lawyers such as Pu had contributed to the improvement of China's rule of law and social equity, but had been "politically destructive".
His high-profile slugging of corporate villains plays well in his populist state.
Following the President's populist State of the Union address, which in turn built upon his landmark inequality speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, in December, his new budget seeks to preserve existing stimulus measures, such as the extension of payroll-tax cuts and unemployment benefits.
If Barack Obama doesn't raise your taxes, your populist state legislators will.
This year, Romney and Obama seem to be playing it more heavily," an editorial in the populist state-run Global Times said last month.
The UK is a waning power, especially since voting for Brexit, which "show[ed] a losing mindset", in the words of one populist state-run Chinese newspaper.
In a poll on huanqiu.com – the website of the populist state-run tabloid Global Times – 95% of respondents thought Jacques Rogge wrong to praise London 2012 as happy and glorious.
The O.A.S.'s democratic credentials are threatened by many far-left populist states, where fear and intimidation prevail.
Earlier on Monday, the populist state-run Chinese tabloid The Global Times said that agreeing to surrender Snowden to the US "would be a face-losing outcome for both the Hong Kong SAR [special administrative region] government and the Chinese central government".
The populist state-run Global Times newspaper said the problem had triggered public calls to shift development "away from the previous fixation on economic growth", while the China Youth Daily titled a front-page commentary: "More suffocating than the haze is the weakness in response".
