 Kuok berated Keatley in his office and wrote a two-page letter, which Keatley published in the letters section of the paper.Kuok stepped down as group chairman that year.Editorial page editor Gittings complained that in January 2001 he was told to take a "realistic" view of editorial independence and ordered not to run extracts of the Tiananmen Papers, though ultimately was allowed, after protesting "strenuously", to do so.