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China Stops the Presses, Again
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China's leadership is drafting an overhaul of its communist-era
constitution that would include guarantees of private-property rights.
But freedom of the press will probably not be part of any charter-reform
package. In its latest attempt to rein in the country's increasingly
boisterous media, the Party's Publicity Departmentformerly the
Ministry of Propagandathis month ordered the closure of the
Beijing New Times newspaper after it ran an article criticizing
China's congress. The department also forbade coverage of other
sensitive topics, including Jiang Yanyong, the doctor who exposed the
government's cover-up of the SARS epidemic;...