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Chinese police respect privacy!?! Crikey! This news story suggests certain elements in the Chinese police are actually concerned about privacy, so much so that they apologised to a family after busting into a man’s house where the guy was watching porn with his wife.
The world turns. Are we getting close to the point where China, a communist state albeit one hurtling ever faster down the capitalist path, may be becoming more concerned about privacy than Britain?
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On Channel 4 (if I recall correctly) last night there was a documentary about young people in China. Almost all those interviewed said that they weren’t interested in politics but in business. One guy wore a T-shirt that proclaimed: “Anarchy, anarchy: it’s the best.” Someone else had produced a CD and either one tune or the whole CD was entitled: “We never believe the f…..g government.”