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The Tank Man

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3219548376600109729 20 years since the Tiananmen Massacre, and China is a different world. Far more permissive financially, and – if possible – even more repressive technologically. This is a documentary worth watching, both to commemorate those struck down by the army, and to understand how insidious the success of New China is. (The complicity of […]

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080323/wl_nm/china_tibet_dc_120;_ylt=AnuvfX4su.0AObYnhq0.5UwE1vAI China accused the Dalai Lama on Sunday of using unrest in Tibet to back demands for Tibetan independence ahead of the August Olympic Games in Beijing. China’s persecution complex plumbs new lows. I do like the unintentional irony of their accusation of “hostage-taking”. This from a country who has kept its boot firmly on […]

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