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The Economist Pwned by China!

Waxy.org has an interesting article called Translating “The Economist” Behind China’s Great Firewall. It tells how underground online organization the Eco Team translates every Economist article into Chinese and puts it online. The... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Fri, Feb 27 2009

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