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Podcast: Ashley W. Esarey, a China media expert, says Beijing seeks to test out more relaxed media laws with new press freedoms for foreign...
Interviewee: Dan Southerland
Interviewer: Carin Zissis
May 7, 2007
But Southerland warns that, despite new freedoms granted to foreign reporters through the Beijing 2008 Olympics and stories broken by Chinese bloggers, journalists face greater restrictions under President Hu Jintao than his predecessor Jiang Zemin. He says one reason behind recent media crackdowns is that the Communist Party's National Congress, held every five years and coming up in the fall 2007, “looms a lot larger at the moment than the Olympics.”
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