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Foreign correspondents try - in vein - to reach the TAR

I was struck by a post on Tim Johnson's excellent China Rises blog. He, like dozens of other foreign correspondents, are doing their best to get inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region and find out, first hand, what's going on. He... ...full story at Zhongnanhai

from Zhongnanhai on Tue, Mar 18 2008

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