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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2016/02/18/free-speech-gets-unlikely-backer-1/" target="_blank">Free speech gets unlikely backer (1)</a></h3>
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<p class="p1">This is very interesting -- but I think there is a misunderstanding. The Global Times editor, famous for his arrogant chauvinist bluster, probably means "free speech" selectively, for himself but not for his enemies.</p>
<p class="p1">There was in January what looked like an incident related to this: the Global Times wrote in the usually accusatory fashion against the kidnapped booksellers from Hong Kong -- but this was before there had been any other official word on the five kidnapped men, let alone any admittance that they were being held captive by Chinese authorities. In a special article, the Boxun news service claimed that Global Times editors were then reprimanded/punished for jumping the gun on this issue -- this likely since the authorities not only want to choreograph confessions, but also use the silence itself, the absence of news of, or word about, the kidnapping victims, as a tool for whipping up feelings of fear in the family and friends of those taken, and, to cause fear and trembling more widely, as they still continue to do now).</p>
<p class="p1">See: 独家：铜锣湾书店事件《环球时报》“代言中央”乱解签惹高层不满 (博讯北京时间2016年1月07日 综合报道). Jan. 7, 2016.</p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><a href="http://boxun.com/news/gb/china/2016/01/201601072358.shtml">http://boxun.com/news/gb/china/2016/01/201601072358.shtml</a></span></p>
<p class="p1">(Boxun publishes in both Chinese and English, <a href="http://en.boxun.com/"><span class="s2"><a href="http://en.boxun.com" rel="nofollow">http://en.boxun.com</a></span></a>, but this article was not translated)</p>
<p class="p1">Yrs,</p>
<p class="p1">Magnus Fiskesjö <<span class="s2"><a href="mailto:nf42@cornell.edu">nf42@cornell.edu</a>></span></p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on February 18, 2016 </div>
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