China's Journalism Concession in Context
Editorial, The Washington Post | October 24, 2008
China's recent move to make permanent its "modest easing of controls on reporting by foreign journalists" is a half measure following Olympic pledges. ++ Hu Jia is "living proof that human rights in China worsened rather than improved thanks to the Games" and is the recent recipient of the EU's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, which the Chinese government tried to head off through heavy-handed diplomacy. ++ European deputies were right to balk at these attempts and put "human rights back at the heart of EU-China relations."
