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I don't. This person is a journalist. If you want to stop a journalist from writing a story, you kill them or you intimidate them.

China's already under intense public scrutiny. Killing a journalist, especially one who has already published the story in question, would be incredibly unwise!

One could rough her up but in most of these encounters she was in public. Many times they tried to get her alone. But she refused and had already published the story when they entered her hotel room. A beating would have been equally as unwise as killing her. Anything more intimidating than barging into her hotel room would have been a huge disaster for the Chinese government.