This is my third attempt at starting a blog since my arrival to Shanghai. Insh'allah, this one will have a longer shelflife than my previous sad attempts. Thanks to Ms. Lin's tip I have found a way to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, which in recent days has been working on overdrive to keep the evil, distorted and subversive news about Tibet out of China's cyberspace. Will the Chinese government's string of PR bungles ever end? After hearing PR professional and blogmeister Will Moss (aka Imagethief) speak at a recent conference, I am beginning to see the PR apocalypse that the Chinese government is wreaking upon itself. No amount of retroactive damage control can reverse the snowballing bad news about China's human rights record and environmental havoc. All sorts of dissident groups are taking advantage of the Olympics to bring attention to their cause this year. The only question remains: what can China do to save itself from further free-fall in the hearts and minds of the world's conscientious watchers?
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