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Check out this fairly “humorous” attempt by the Chinese government to impede a CNN journalist from reporting at Tian An Men on on the 20th Anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Protests. ...full story at Black China Hand

from Black China Hand on Thu, Jun 04 2009

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