What are we missing in China?
Chinese officials are also concentrating their efforts on censoring any subversive Chinese site found guilty of displaying pornography, democratic images or any other adult-related material to their populace. However, they quickly realized they were fighting a losing battle and resorted to more subtle means to try and bring the Chinese populace back to order.
Propaganda teams modify popular internet sites.
Such reports have been strenuously denied by China. In a recent press conference, Chinese Minister of Information, Sun Ji-Hung, said, "there is nothing censored in China. We don't know what you're talking about. Everything here is fine. Nothing has gone missing, or anything."
Chinese foreign minister, Li Zhaoxing, was later quizzed about the denial Sun Ji-Hung put forward. "What denial? Who's Li-Hung? There is no offical record of these things anywhere. YOU LEAVE NOW."
China has long had a history of censorship, says Nicolas Becquelin, a research director at a Hong-Kong based human rights organisation to whom these events and the Chinese denial of these events and the Chinese denial of the denial of the events come as no surprise. "When the west first discovered China, and the wonders therein, China spent millions of dollars trying to convince potential tourists that their historical wonders were nonexistent. China values its privacy, much like, say, a crazy old hermit in the woods."
The Great _____ of China
UPDATE: In response to this story, the Chinese government has issued a statement declaring that what the world is referring to as 'China' is in fact just a small paddy field near the Mongolian border.
State-issued map of China
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