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How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

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Re: How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

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oh yea, let me run to the nytimes for commentary on china. I'm sure it is neutral and very much well informed.

think of it more as the orchestra of fear, uncertainty and doom, with many many idivdual players, but all drummers, with the same drum kit, so right now they are playing, Iran, iran ,IRAN, china, russia,china ,china, india, as the main rythim, with the constant smashing and banging on, sex, sex, sports, sex, politics, foriegn disater,money sex, religion,money, fame, money,sex CRIME CRIME CRIME. and every friday they go, pope! if someone got inspired it could be turned into a real time news driven drum machine thing, and instead of actauly listening or watching, a given feed, just listen to the resulting reduction to the big fud band.

Re: How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

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The article sticks to factual information.

To dispel the idea that the information may be fake or some low-skill demo site, they have verified that 6 of the people cited are real.

There is no written fear-mongering.

IMO, the main question a reader might have is "is this real?" Given the lack of puffery, my guess is yes.

Re: How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

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The article sticks to factual information. To dispel the idea that the information may be fake or some low-skill demo site, they have verified that 6 of the people cited are real. There is no written fear-mongering. IMO, the main question a reader might have is "is this real?" Given the lack of puffery, my guess is yes.

Agreed. I could be biased here but it seems to me that, to much greater degree than I would have expected, criticism of China is held to a uniquely escalated standard for factual verification, and met with a lot of whataboutism non-sequiturs (including a couple in this thread already). So I appreciate the high reporting standards that go into work like this to minimize potential distractions.
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