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China-Japan-Koreas
White House press plane detained 3 hrs by Chinese
2008-08-08
Chinese authorities unclear on the concept - this is certainly a respone to Bush's comments on political rights but do they really think the journos are Bush's allies or that detaining them so that they couldn't cover his opening of the new US embassy is a slap at the president?

Hell, they probably improved his positives by a couple percentage points just by preventing those stories. chuckle
Posted by:lotp

#4  I predict that this will not be the last time some of them are detained in China.
Posted by: Darrell   2008-08-08 12:36  

#3  If "custom of the port" is standard policy for foreign press coming here, it is a major security risk. With current terrorist threats for the Olympics, I think the Chinese have shown prudence.
Posted by: Danielle   2008-08-08 11:15  

#2  We screw with them, they screw with us, what's not to understand.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-08-08 10:01  

#1  Only three hours? Bush should have demanded much longer. And maybe he should have hinted that all of the press dweebs were muling in large amounts of illegal drugs...
Posted by: PBMcL   2008-08-08 01:19  

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