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Tag Archives: China

Movie Review: Jet Li's Fearless

Monday, September 25, 2006

I review Jet Li's latest film, Fearless, and compare it to the last Jet Li movie I saw, Hero.

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Mugabe Rebuffed

Monday, August 1, 2005

Last week, reporters at all of the major newspapers wrote articles about Zimbabwe's close relationship with China. These articles were prompted by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's visit to China (although it is useful to note that the Christian Science Monitor was writing about this at the beginning of July). Luckily, there is some good news [...]

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Chinese Internet Police are Astroturfing

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Not content to simply restrict their citizens' access to Internet topics they consider obscene or inflammatory, the Chinese government is now resorting to astroturfing to affect political discussions online. Astroturfing is the practice by using the relative anonymity of the Internet to create a positive image of a company, organization, person, or in this case, [...]

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