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If you think China is a police state, just look at us in Britain

By John Hirst

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If you think China is a police state, just look at us in Britain

Beijing seems to have been turned into one giant Potemkin village. Everybody smiling, everybody happy. The universally joyful welcome has already drawn gasps of admiration and astonishment from visiting British sports journalists. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, who speaks Mandarin, took the trouble to roam further afield, to a village near Guangzhou, where farmers three years ago had protested about the seizure of their land by local Communist Party officials. He was speedily surrounded by what he described as "a phalanx of young men with cropped hair, who followed me wherever I went".

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on August 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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