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China ignores questions on expelled journalist
May 08, 2012
May 08, 2012
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(AP) BEIJING - The Chinese Foreign Ministry's usually staid news briefing showed some spark, with 14 out of 18 questions concerning the first expulsion of a foreign journalist from the country in more than a dozen years.
Not that you would know from the official transcript.
As seen Wednesday on its website, the ministry's account of Tuesday's briefing mentioned only the four questions not dealing with the ejection of Melissa Chan, the Al-Jazeera news network's sole English-language reporter in Beijing. Two dealt with the Middle East, two with the Philippines.
The transcripts are considered an official public record of proceedings
Not that you would know from the official transcript.
As seen Wednesday on its website, the ministry's account of Tuesday's briefing mentioned only the four questions not dealing with the ejection of Melissa Chan, the Al-Jazeera news network's sole English-language reporter in Beijing. Two dealt with the Middle East, two with the Philippines.
The transcripts are considered an official public record of proceedings
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