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Beijing's second airport, as reported in Hong KongPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 9:23 AM
This is funny: The China Daily has published a story about Beijing's second airport, using an article in a Hong Kong newspaper as its only source. Excerpt:
Xinhua has also republished the China Daily story verbatim. This means that the state-owned news agency and state-owned newspaper, both headquartered in Beijing are breaking news about the capital that comes from an "unnamed source" quoted in a Hong Kong newspaper. Ta Kung Pao (大公報) is a Hong Kong newspaper founded in 1902, but funded heavily by the Beijing government since 1949. Nonetheless, it's a strange place for Beijing's state-owned media to get information about Beijing. Links and Sources
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Comments on Beijing's second airport, as reported in Hong Kong
This is a bit odd, but not too out of character. Sometimes when there is "sensitive" news that they want to be known nonetheless, they'll have someone leak it in the HK press and then circulate it back in China- so that it will receive minimal coverage, but will nonetheless be known by all the important people. (ie. they did this by leaking, right before the Two Sessions, that political reform was not going to happen in 2009).
If that's the case here, the question is why would an airport be that sensitive. Bizarre. Maybe it has to do with the internal politics of the State Council (putting pressure on people to approve it, perhaps), or testing the waters to see what public reaction there would be from those whose homes would be torn down....
This is a ridiculous waste of time. T3 is not even fully used. Most of the airport is empty.
yes, god forbid they have a plan before they need to implement it.