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New York Times reporter Chris Buckley forced to leave China after critical report on Premier Wen Jiabao

A New York Times reporter has been forced to leave China, two months after the newspaper carried a critical report on the wealth of the family of Premier Wen Jiabao. Mr Chris Buckley, who has worked in China as a journalist since 2000, left for Hong Kong on Monday after…

China paper tells soldiers to ignore Internet rumors

China’s main military newspaper told soldiers Friday to ignore Internet gossip and close ranks around the government, in the latest sign of official unease ahead of a leadership transition this year. The Liberation Army Daily warned that the 10-yearly handover of power, which begins later this year when President Hu…

Escaped dissident warns of China role in world politics

WASHINGTON — A prominent Chinese dissident who fled last week to the United States cautioned Wednesday over Beijing’s influence in the world, saying that the communist state was bent on exporting its model. Yu Jie, a writer who defiantly published a critical biography of Premier Wen Jiabao in 2010 in…

Chinese dissident flees to U.S.

WASHINGTON — A Chinese dissident who wrote a critical book about Premier Wen Jiabao has fled into exile in the United States, saying Thursday that he faced physical abuse and restrictions on publishing. Yu Jie, who in 2010 published in Hong Kong the book “Wen Jiabao: China’s Best Actor” despite…