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Coverage of today's attack on a police station in Kashgar will be important to watch. The coming hours will determine if the government's more liberal rules on foreign reporters' travel will be observed or ignored. The policy--which ostensibly allows foreign media to travel and interview people freely--was put into place in January 2007 as part of China's Olympic pledge to remove restrictions on journalists. It was summarily sidelined when ethnic rioting broke out in
China watchers in Hong Kong say there is a feeling within the Beijing government that completely closing off Tibet in March might have been a bad strategy that led to a "news vacuum" that was going to be filled one way or another by the foreign media. The lesson learned, the feeling here is, that a more lenient approach might have worked to the government's advantage in
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Hi Bob.
It is very interesting to watch how the role of the press and its relationship with the chinese govt. will fully unfold in the days to come! I believe it is a wonderful opportunity for the member of foreign press to get into the "darker" side of the realities on the gorund in China. It will be at times a challenge for sure.
Thanks for your watchful eyes:)
Shakila