Media Control Gets More Tricky

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In The Media

Media Control Gets More Tricky

By Minxin Pei

Published on Feb 27, 2006

Source: Straits Times

The Year of the Dog has not started well for China's propaganda authorities. In the international media, Beijing has been excoriated for forcing American Internet giants such as Google and Yahoo! to comply with its restrictive regulations and help censor the flow of information within the 'Great Firewall of China'.

To read Minxin Pei's article on censorship, propaganda and the media in China, click here.

About the Author

Minxin Pei

Former Adjunct Senior Associate, Asia Program

Pei is Tom and Margot Pritzker ‘72 Professor of Government and the director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College.

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