http://samadhisoft.com/2006/07/03/china-law-seeks-to-curb-foreign-media-too/ Transcending our biological imperatives - Theories of future history - Eden lost Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:38:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://samadhisoft.com/2006/07/03/china-law-seeks-to-curb-foreign-media-too/#comment-27 China Law Blog Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:11:08 +0000 http://samadhisoft.com/2006/07/03/china-law-seeks-to-curb-foreign-media-too/#comment-27 China's media clampdown law is still in the proposal stage and the way things work in China, the longer it stays in that stage, and the more it is talked about, the less likely it is to be enacted. The silver lining in all of this is that this proposed law is increasing Chinese importance of press freedom. If this law ends up not being enacted (and I think that is a real possibility) its proposal and subsequent failure will end up being a good thing for freedom of the press in China. China’s media clampdown law is still in the proposal stage and the way things work in China, the longer it stays in that stage, and the more it is talked about, the less likely it is to be enacted. The silver lining in all of this is that this proposed law is increasing Chinese importance of press freedom. If this law ends up not being enacted (and I think that is a real possibility) its proposal and subsequent failure will end up being a good thing for freedom of the press in China.

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