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

October 02, 2005 | BY

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

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