In stifling voices after Zhuhai car attack, China recycles crisis playbook

BEIJING/ZHUHAI – When word broke on social media that a deadly car rampage had struck his city on Nov 11, a Zhuhai resident surnamed Yang “did not really believe it”.

It was only the next day, when China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported the incident, that he realised its severity – 35 people killed and 43 injured in the country’s deadliest mass attack in a decade.