News Analysis A series of internal documents responding to a municipal internet censorship authority reveals that information related to the Chinese Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) strategy was removed from a local bureaus’ official websites in June 2018, only months after a trade war had broken out with the United States. The Epoch Times recently obtained documents from a trusted source issued by various departments in Anshan City of northern Liaoning province reveals the requirement to remove information about MCF on departments’ websites and from official accounts on social media platforms. However, the MCF strategy is a national-level strategy that the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has emphasized. In March 2018, CCP leader Xi Jinping chaired the third meeting of the Central Commission for the Development of Military-Civil Fusion. In it, he emphasized further reducing the barriers between the commercial economy and the defense industrial base. Three months later, MCF was …