Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 7, 2008
Seeing Red
When China hosts this year's Olympic Games, many visiting journalists and spectators will be allowed freedoms that still aren't offered to Chinese citizens, writes Richard Brent Reed. - Forum Column
By Richard Brent Reed
This article appears on Page 6
Beijing is about to host the Olympics. All of the signs in Beijing are in English and almost all of the Chinese who live there speak English, having begun their lessons in the fifth grade. Even so, the Chinese people are not allowed to get their news from CNN, Fox or British World News. China has cable television-but its content is controlled by t...
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