From the optimism and hope for China leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where a more free and open media was promised by China's leaders to the world, the IFJ reports that reality on the ground is harshly different, with a continuing and disturbing decline in media freedoms in both Mainland China and Hong Kong.
Source: MEDIA FEED
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