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"Death by a Thousand Blogs - (internet catching up with Chinese government - interesting piece here!)"
NEW YORK TIMES.COM ^ | MAY 24, 2005 | NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Posted on 05/23/2005 11:14:54 PM PDT by CHARLITE
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Chinese Communist Party survived a brutal civil war with the Nationalists, battles with American forces in Korea and massive pro-democracy demonstrations at Tiananmen Square. But now it may finally have met its match - the Internet.
The collision between the Internet and Chinese authorities is one of the grand wrestling matches of history, visible in part at http://www.yuluncn.com.
That's the Web site of a self-appointed journalist named Li Xinde. He made a modest fortune selling Chinese medicine around the country, and now he's started the Chinese Public Opinion Surveillance Net - one of four million blogs in China."
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