One of the nicer perks of being a mover and shaker in a one-party system is that you can pretty much declare anything is illegal and people just have to deal with it. This is a new monthly column that looks back at all that was banned in China in the past month.
While China's domestic media reels over the threat of ebola, praising the government's efforts in fighting a cold it hasn't caught, tuberculosis (TB) remains by far the country's deadliest disease, having claimed the lives of approximately 45,150 in 2012, according to the World Health Organization.
![South China Morning Post’s Slide Toward Irrelevance? [UPDATE]](http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Paul-Mooney-and-Wang-Xiangmei-150x150.png "South China Morning Post’s Slide Toward Irrelevance? [UPDATE]"){kind=small}
