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President Obama in China at the Guardian UK Website
Insightfully written...Cheers, Mario
by Isaac Mao at the Guardian UK Nov 16th - Obama takes on the China firewall: While authorities fixated on the Tibet issue, Obama took on internet censorship. Not all of us were surprised.
In the leadup to the eagerly awaited arrival of President Obama in China, the government has gone to some lengths to avoid the Dalai Lama question coming to the fore – including an attempt to point to a history of slavery. (Last week, China's foreign ministry spokesman implicitly warned Obama to avoid embracing the Dalai Lama by making reference to China's claimed liberation of Tibetan slaves: "He is a black president, and he understands the slavery abolition movement and Lincoln's major significance for that movement.") But by focusing, to the point of paranoia, on forestalling any dissident upstaging, authorities may have overlooked a strategic question of greater immediate importance to the Obama administration: the Chinese blogosphere.
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