{"id":169397,"date":"2014-02-21T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=169397"},"modified":"2014-02-21T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T02:18:20","slug":"week-cdt-february-21-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/week-cdt-february-21-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week on CDT, February 21, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship instructions, or &#8220;Directives from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/ministry-of-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Truth<\/a>&#8221; advise media outlets on their coverage of sensitive news stories. For\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/minitrue-obamas-meeting-dalai-lama\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama&#8217;s meeting with the Dalai Lama<\/a>, &#8220;only Xinhua and national media copy may be used;&#8221; all websites were advised to delete a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/tencent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tencent\u00a0<\/a>article about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/minitrue-delete-article-mainland-entitlement\/\" target=\"_blank\">tensions in Hong Kong, Mainland relations<\/a>; and\u00a0also deemed unacceptable was a story about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/minitrue-xia-baolong-western-hostile-forces\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zhejiang secretary and &#8220;Western hostile forces,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0Finally, an article about financial services firm,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/minitrue-zhang-shuguang-familys-offshore-company\/\" target=\"_blank\">UBS, setting up an offshore company\u00a0<\/a>for the wife and daughter of disgraced former Ministry of Railways Zhang Shuguang was ordered removed.<\/p>\n<p>For coverage of what\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>being said on the Chinese Internet, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/netizen-voices-hu-xijin-holds-grudges\/\" target=\"_blank\">Netizen Voices<\/a>. This week it&#8217;s reaction to the Weibo posts\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/global-times\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Times<\/a>\u00a0chief editor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/hu-xijin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hu Xijin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/river-crabbed-catching-tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\">River Crabbed<\/a>, CDT republishes a censored Weibo post by one user who\u00a0finds Xi Jinping&#8217;s fruitful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/01\/xi-jinping-takes-anti-corruption-fight-to-tigers-and-flies\/\" target=\"_blank\">corruption probes\u00a0<\/a>unsurprising.<\/p>\n<p>And finally this week&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/word-week-godfather\/\" target=\"_blank\">Word of the Week:\u00a0Godfather\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">\u5e72\u7239 (g\u0101ndi\u0113),<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>is about more than just the unsavory details of\u00a0a moneyed class\u00a0of men playing sugar daddy to young women:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The dependence on connections has become an increasingly pervasive part of modern Chinese culture. While children of the\u00a0<a title=\"Rich second generation\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Rich_second_generation\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">rich<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Governing second generation\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Governing_second_generation\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">powerful<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 \u201c<a title=\"Compare fathers\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/space\/Compare_fathers\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">compare fathers<\/span><\/a>\u201d, it is also said that some women \u201ccompare godfathers,\u201d relying on these connections to obtain money, professional opportunities, and preferential treatment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship instructions, or &#8220;Directives from the\u00a0Ministry of Truth&#8221; advise media outlets on their coverage of sensitive news stories. 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