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Danwei Picks: The disappearing news storyPosted by Joel Martinsen, March 11, 2008 6:21 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). The strange case of the disappearing news story: Richard Spencer blogs about the difficulties he faced in reporting on the Chinese government's changing story about the "incident" on a flight from Urumqi to Beijing: There is little way of garnering independent evidence, so you put in a balance. Related article in The Telegraph.
We have to stop pointing fingers at other nations, making symbolic and hurtful gestures, while not looking first at our own governments, our own policies and our own national ethos. We cannot continue to judge without the expectation of being judged back, or in this case, to further alienate China from engagement in meaningful multilateral peace talks for the region.
The Oscar-winning film director Ang Lee has written a letter of protest after a young protégé, whose sexually explicit scenes in his last movie turned her into a star, was deemed a 'non-person' by China's state censor. But it might not be a ban after all.
'We must aim at improving the capability to win high-tech regional wars and keep enhancing the ability of the military to respond to security threats and accomplish a diverse array of military tasks,' the president said.
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