If recent reports are true, Beijing might be about to go back on earlier promises to allow greater press freedom by imposing heavy fines on media groups who report on disasters without first gaining approval from state censors.
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After much speculation, Beijing has issued a formal statement over the 'banning' of the controversial film "The Da Vinci Code". Apparently it has not been banned, it has simply been 'Removed from Public View'.
Although it is a taboo that it is not often spoken of in public, or at least in the presence of foreigners, one of the key dynamics in the turbulent Sino-Japanese relationship has always been Japan's close post-war relationship with the US.