Qin Gang “Disappears” on the 24th; SCMP Deletes Paragraph on Qin Gang from US Scholar’s Article
秦剛「被消失」24日 SCMP擅刪美籍學者涉秦剛段落
US scholar Philip J. Cunningham complained on Twitter that the South China Morning Post deleted, without notifying him, a paragraph mentioning Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang from a commentary article he wrote on 15 July. “Qin Gang is missing. Not only is he missing from the news cycle in China, but he’s missing from my article!” he wrote. He said editors had the right to shorten an article, but deleting an entire passage about the disappearance of a foreign minister with real power was not purely “editing.”
美籍學者金培力（Philip J. Cunningham）在其Twitter投訴《南華早報》在未曾知會的情況下，擅自刪去他在7月15日一篇評論文章中提及中國外交部長秦剛的段落，「秦剛消失了。他不僅從中國的新聞當中消失，也從我的文章裡消失了！」（Qin Gang is missing. Not only is he missing from the news cycle in China, but he’s missing from my article!）。他認為編輯有權縮短篇幅，但把整段提及一個有實權的外交部長失蹤的文字刪掉就不純粹是「編輯」了。