Li Datong

{{Short description|Chinese journalist (born 1952)}}

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Li Datong (李大同, born 1952) was the Managing Editor of Freezing Point, a section of China Youth Daily.{{Cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p01s04-woap.html |title=China's media censorship rattling world image |date=24 February 2006 |website=Christian Science Monitor |access-date=21 July 2018}} He now{{when|date=June 2019}} writes for openDemocracy, which is based in London.{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/world-43228701 |title=Gia hạn nhiệm kỳ chủ tịch TQ là 'trò hề' |date=28 February 2018 |work=BBC News Tiếng Việt |access-date=21 July 2018 |language=vi}}

Datong was openly critical of China's 2018 constitutional change that removed the term limits for the President. In an open letter to the National People's Congress he stated that the change would "sow the seeds of chaos".{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-43212839 |title=Extending Xi rule 'would be a farce' |date=27 February 2018 |work=BBC News |access-date=21 July 2018 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/03/06/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/chinese-grumble-emperor-congress-fetes-xi/ |title=Chinese grumble about 'emperor' as congress fetes Xi |date=6 March 2018 |work=The Japan Times Online |access-date=21 July 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0447-5763}}