Author: Timothy Lesle

Tim Lesle is a freelance journalist and student at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. His personal website is telesle.net, his personal blog is here.

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Inside Look at Pirate Radio Broadcast in Beijing

The PBS Mediashift site has an insider’s account of how a Reporters Without Borders activist broadcast a 20-minute human rights message via FM radio from the Beijing International Media Center, 12 hours before the Olympics opening ceremony. At 7:50 a.m., it’s time to go. I take my bag and walk toward the BIMC. It’

August 26, 2008 10:23 AM

AFRICOM Willing to Work with China

The U.S. military’s relatively new African Command, or AFRICOM, has expressed an openness to working with China’s military, should the opportunity arise, says its commander. Stars and Stripes has a rundown of AFRICOM, China’s role in Africa, and areas where those might overlap or be incompatible: Despi

June 29, 2008 2:57 PM