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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
"it defied any one broad statement" That's exactly the attitude and open-mindedness that so many of today's China reporters are lacking from. No wonder, they're no longer welcome.
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