China's Media Clampdown: Going Back on Past Promises?

After whetting investors' appetites in opening its media industry to foreigners in late 2004, is China now turning back on its earlier liberalization initiatives?

1 minute readOctober 02, 2005 at 12:58 AM

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By Gregory Sy, Lehman Lee & Xu, Beijing

Historically, Chinese media has acted principally as an organ of the state and only recently became a source of revenue. This is due largely to the fact that the media continues to be, primarily, state-run and subject to government censorship.

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