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On his two month trip, he was pushed around by stiff and unsmiling contacts who "appeared to go to undue lengths to put difficulties in my way." There were overly scripted tours, the constant minders, the feeling that when he left, his brain had been in a deep freeze .. 4
But he also met many ordinary people who shrugged off heavy-handed officials. These people made him laugh and filled him with the kind of optimism that any reporter today will recognize in cynical and often hilarious conversations with laobaixing in cities like Beijing ..5
He was moved to admiration and filled with indignation. China, he wrote, was such a large country that it defied any one broad brush statement. “And yet, under the current leadership, the way in which the government silences alternative points of view makes it hard not to" .. 6
It's this line that keeps repeating in my head today as I think about the implications of China's decision to expel so many of hardworking, talented and dedicated correspondents.. 7
“... he also met many ordinary people who shrugged off heavy-handed officials. ...” turns out these people were probably the most dangerous.
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