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The denial of visas to correspondents from the NY Times and Bloomberg is an effort to intimidate foreign reporters into adopting the same self-censorship mentality that PRC reporters have long been socialized by the Party-state into adopting. If this were to succeed long term, autocratic clampdowns on the press would spread like a cancer through the world.
Dec 18, 2013 11:36 AM
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