China's NBA Bid, Nancy Pelosi and Tibet
On time.com this week Hannah Beech has a piece on Chinese efforts to invest in the Cleveland Cavaliers. (Perhaps the Chinese suitors should check this recent Sports Illustrated cover story by Cleveland native Joe Posnanski before their Cleveland euphoria gets downright irrational.) And I have stories on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit and a new examination of last year's riots in Tibet.
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6.4: Search Emancipation Day
As the 20th anniversary of June 4th incident is approaching, Baidu et al are grinding to a halt. Users of aggregated forums cannot create new posts and cannot post comments since May 23th. According to the official notice of Baidu, the reason for the suspension is related to “national regulations” and “forum's term of agreement”.
6.4: Celebrating the liberation of all netizens from the tyranny of information. More at:
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2009/05/27/china-june-4th-related-system-maintenance/
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Tibetans know good luck is not shared by the poor minorities...only the wealthy bureaucrats bask in the sun of the Chinese wealth.
The Dalai Lama is the MLK of China!
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According to the blogger Sammy Cheung, Ai Weiwei's blogs at sina.com, sohu.com and 163.com have all been suspended. Only his blog at bullogger.com is still accessible because the portal is now hosted overseas.
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