{"id":170883,"date":"2014-03-28T19:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T02:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=170883"},"modified":"2014-03-28T20:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:05:05","slug":"week-china-digital-times-march-28-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/week-china-digital-times-march-28-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week on China Digital Times, March 28, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama completed a weeklong trip to China but government censors required media outlets downplay stories about <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/minitrue-missing-lawyers-sci-fi-michelle-obama\/\">Michelle\u2019s first meal in Beijing, the empty Great Wall, and the uniforms at the school Mrs. Obama visited.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other articles that the state propaganda apparatus have targeted for removal: <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/minitrue-malaysians-leave-beijing-hotel-says-report\/\">China\u2019s request that Malaysian Airlines staff leave a Beijing hotel<\/a>, information regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/minitrue-missing-lawyers-sci-fi-michelle-obama\/\">Tang Jitian and other missing lawyers<\/a>, and video or text related to a short sci-fi film, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/minitrue-missing-lawyers-sci-fi-michelle-obama\/\">Hong Kong Will Be Destroyed in 33 Years<\/a><\/em>. Censors have also indicated that the only acceptable coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/minitrue-stabbing-beijing\/\">recent stabbings in Beijing\u2019s Huairou district<\/a> is to parrot the report posted to Weibo by Peaceful Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/word-week-chinternet\/\">This week\u2019s word of the week is Chinternet<\/a>. As one might guess, it\u2019s a contraction of \u201cChina\u201d and \u201cInternet,\u201d and refers to the particulars of the Chinese Internet: \u201cthe \u201cGreat Firewall\u201d filters certain foreign websites and webpages, while government and commercial censors block and delete content. Domestic platforms soak up traffic that would go to globally popular sites, if they were not blocked or otherwise rendered difficult to use: Weibo replaces Twitter, Baidu replaces Google, YouKu stands in for YouTube, and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/netizens-hk-actor-chapman-stay-china\/\">Hong Kong actor Chapman To<\/a> expressed support for <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/taiwanese-riot-police-clear-protesters-cabinet-offices\/\">student protestors in Taiwan<\/a> who oppose a trade pact that will liberalize service sector trade with Mainland China. To\u2019s outspokenness has made him enemies in Mainland China who urge him to \u201cget the hell out of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/03\/badiucao-%E5%B7%B4%E4%B8%A2%E8%8D%89-good-man-going-home\/\">A Good Man is Going Home:<\/a> the latest drawing by Badiucao depicts activist <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/tan-zuoren\/\">Tan Zuoren<\/a>, just released after serving a five-year prison term.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Obama completed a weeklong trip to China but government censors required media outlets downplay stories about Michelle\u2019s first meal in Beijing, the empty Great Wall, and the uniforms at the school Mrs. Obama visited. 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