Last year an agent for Chinese printing companies—which have the most advanced and cheapest production facilities in the world—handed Australian publishing houses a list of words and topics that could not appear in any books that were to be printed in China. The overwhelming majority of these books are for markets—including Australia—outside China itself, which has become the default printer globally. Naturally, the names of Chinese dissidents, such as Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, who died excruciatingly while incarcerated in China in 2017, are high on this list. But it also includes those of the country’s paramount leader Xi…