Rian Thum@RianThum 3月27日：

Chinese government has now sanctioned individual foreign scholars at think tanks (Björn Jerdén, @adrianzenz) and a university (@j_smithfinley), punishing them for nothing other than their research & writing.

The sanctions reveal a lot about the current PRC leadership.

What kind of government responds to sanctions on officials by putting sanctions on scholars?

那么应该假定Rian Thum至少在某种程度上属于同一类。