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Is The Chinese Propaganda Department Funded By Japan?

"Nanjing Massacre", "Diaoyu Islands" On The Nanny's List

Non-news: the Party's Propaganda Department and its ilk keep a long list of sensitive words like "June Fourth" or even "Jiang Zemin" to ensure the internet remains harmless - harmless to the Party, I suppose.

Baidu, the country's biggest search engine and the Party's darling, is now banning search phrases like "Nanjing Massacre" (南京大屠杀) and "Diaoyu Islands" (钓鱼岛), a group of islands claimed by both Beijing and Tokyo. But I suspect what is truly "hurting Chinese people's feeling", to borrow Chinese foreign ministry spokespersons' words, is not the banning of the materials for patriotic education, but the fact that Baidu does not ban the search phrase "Senkaku Islands" (尖阁列岛 in Chinese or 尖閣諸島 in Japanese), the name used by the Japanese, at the same time!

Should I lodge a complaint against the Propaganda Department for betraying my country? Or does the Nanny know something that I don't - that His Majesty has decided to offer an olive branch to Tokyo?

Related:
Google China may have implemented a similar ban (kenwong via Keso (cn)) - for some patriotic netizens the story has it that ugly Americans ban "Diaoyu Islands" but not "Senkaku Islands" and all Chinese people with conscience should boycott Google and use Baidu!

UPDATE 2:
ESWN translated the "anti-Google China" chain letter; GVO reports how Chinese netizens view the Great Firewall.

UPDATE 1:
The ratio of the People's Police to anti-Yasukuni protesters was 15:1, Jane Macartney observes.

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