News: China Attempts to Stop Online References to Zhao

All Things Considered, NPR January 18, 2005 ·
China is attempting to suppress any mention of former Chinese Premier
Zhao Ziyang on the Internet. Zhao, who died over the weekend, was
toppled as China’s leader after he opposed a military crackdown on
pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Robert Siegel
talks with Xiao Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project
at the University of California on the hidden and metaphoric discussion and internet blocking and who is Zhao in terms of current political situation.

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Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

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