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In the long view, China has a tenuous claim claim, at best, to the region I will henceforth refer to as “TWC.” Yet, despite their shaky moral standing, it is possible, just possible, that Beijing responded appropriately this time around. However, their shutting down of the international media sealed the negative storyline that has [...]

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Just more than five months away, I’m already getting the feeling that things are going to be really crazy in August. In the last day I’ve had people ask me if they can stay with me during the Games, get them an internship and help students volunteer during the Olympics. Plus, the rumors flying, both [...]

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Most of my friends in the States, and indeed, most of the mainstream media outside of China, is under the false impression that news only trickles into the the Mainland. Historically this has been true, and there are still remnants around, but if you can read or understand English, as many young Chinese can, things [...]

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American Su Fei has a video up where she goes around asking Beijingers what they think about the American election, primarily the Obama-Hillary aspect. I should mention that I was planning to do this bit based on message boards a few weeks back–except the discussions about Obama had almost no participants and made little sense. [...]

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It looks like the US is going to press China via the WTO on media restrictions. Apparently the government has been using restrictions on foreign media as a way to get Xinhua a competitive advantage. This mimics moves over the years in the auto sector among others (many of which were phased out under WTO [...]

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