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From the Washington Post: Phoenix is the only private television network in China allowed to broadcast news in Chinese, a privilege that reflects the warm relationship Liu has cultivated with party leaders. But on the phone that day in January, he defied the authorities and quickly approved the Zhao story, recalled the reporter, Rose Luqiu. […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times, via MSN.com: Rupert Murdoch has worked hard to avoid offending Chinese leaders ever since he earned their ire with a 1993 declaration that satellite television posed an “unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere”… But now Mr Murdoch appears to be ready to take his diplomatic gloves off again. At a conference […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: Hong Kong Disneyland, the second Disney foray into Asia, is known to some in the theme park business as Disney Lite. It is far smaller than Disney parks in the United States, Japan and France, with fewer of the elaborate signature rides. But in one area, at least, the Hong […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via the Washington Post: North Korea agreed to stop building nuclear weapons and to allow international inspections. In exchange, the country will get energy aid, economic cooperation and security assurances. The deal announced Monday comes after two years of talks between North Korea, the United States and four other nations. Bush said it […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: Superficially, Beijing would seem to have managed the North Korean crisis adroitly. It has certainly outperformed Washington, where the split between hawks and doves has prevented the Bush administration from making progress toward either a negotiated settlement with Pyongyang or the organization of a coalition to compel President Kim Jong Il to give […]
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