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"On the Record with Jill Ku -- China's Road to Democracy"
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Obama backs non-censorship; Beijing, apparently, does not
President Obama, taking questions Monday from government-selected students at a town hall-style meeting in Shanghai, called himself "a big supporter of non-censorship." But the Beijing government, apparently, is not, and most Chinese never got to hear or read what Obama said.
China's Upper Hand
Obama faces a new reality as he tries to reengage Beijing: from global warming to currency, Peter Beinart says the days when the U.S. can make demands of China are over.
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NPR's Marketplace Program
As delegates from 142 countries are gathering in Qatar today to - among other things - officially welcome China into the World Trade Organization, we wanted to get some sense of how this free trade opening is playing within China. A radio call-in show is one way to crack that nut, but you can’t hear Marketplace in China beyond the internet. So we commandeered the facilities of a broadcaster that does take call-ins from the Chinese people. Actually, we didn’t commandeer Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts in nine Asian languages from studios in Washington, D.C. It agreed to let Marketplace use its facilities to take calls from China. But during this call-in show, I’d be posing the questions and directing the follow up. We brought in our translator and R.F.A. host Jill Ku, who helped me keep things flowing on the air. Jill told me that callers often hike to payphones to avoid being tracked by authorities. They use pseudonyms, as you might imagine, and the audience ranges from regular workers to middle managers and even to members of the communist party and the army. On the appointed day, the theme music for Jill’s weekly program, "Voices of the People" began to play, and the R.F.A. phones lit up.
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