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The Chinese government's smart media move

The Telegraph's Malcolm Moore thinks the new English-language Global Times is pretty clever: It is early days and these are small steps. But it is already clear that the Global Times English is playing a different game to the Chinese version, and an... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Apr 22 2009

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