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In praise of Google in China

The BBC’s website is blocked but many international apartment buildings get BBC World. My colleague was watching the BBC in her Beijing apartment this morning when a report on Google’s agreement to censor key words and sites via its upcoming … Continue reading

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The standard issue chairman mao

I had never before lived in a country where there was a real cult of personality. China has fixed that. Oh, Americans give it their best shot. God bless them if they don’t want Reagan on everything these days: Ships, … Continue reading

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