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18 March 2008 |
It is nearly 2,000 miles from where I sit to Lhasa, roughly the same distance as it is from Los Angeles to Detroit, or a bit further than from Paris to Moscow, writes Euro-correspondent.com's Michael Standaert from BEIJING. For most Chinese it may as well be even further away than that. Access to websites with accurate and independent information about what is going on in Tibet and the surrounding provinces is blocked or not available in Chinese. What they do get is the official word from the government-controlled media, if they get that at all. Tibet may be a huge story in the international media, but for China it's on the bottom of page one, relegated to page two, or absent entirely.
Read on-going coverage of the events by Michael Standaert at the Huffington Post.
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