On Aug. 19 Chinese state-run media reported that Premier Li Keqiang’s Henan trip had started the day before, where at least 300 people were killed in floods in July. Li started his trip on the morning of Aug. 18, visited the people whose houses had been submerged, the metro tunnel where passengers were killed by the flood, and the farmlands that had been inundated by floodwater. During the trip, Li disciplined officials and vowed to hold officials accountable for mistakes during the floods. State-run media didn’t report on the trip until late in the night of Aug. 19. People knew of Li’s trip from two cellphone shots with low-quality videos that the State Council—China’s central government that is led by Li—posted on its official website. Normally, Chinese state-run Xinhua and CCTV report on leaders’ trips within hours. Overseas Chinese affairs commentators said they believed that the delay of the state-run media …