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A Prague-based Chinese scientist has named a new type of beetle that he has discovered after the Chinese leader to honour him. But it does not go down well with the party leadership. Censors have stepped in and deleted any reference to the beetle online. Josh Chin is a political reporter for the Wall Street Journal and explains why this might have happened.

(Picture: Left - Chinese President Xi Jinping; Credit: Getty Images and Right - The Rhyzodiastes (Temoana) xii, discovered last year on Hainan Island, by Cheng-Bin Wang; Credit: Magnolia Press)