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Pre-Olympics Xinjiang terrorism media blitz: Dave at the Mutant Palm blog gives a run-down of the various angles the state media has brought to the issue of Xinjiang security:
The third week of February was awfully busy for Xinjiang terrorism news.
First, there were reports of a Uyghur terrorist cell being raided by the police in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital. The initial report appears to have been in Singtao Daily, the Hong Kong-based international Chinese language newspaper chain, on February 14th. It said that 18 were killed on February 4th in a huge police assault on an apartment in the Happy Gardens (幸福花园) complex, and two security officers were also killed in the full-scale gun battle. The report was subsequently carried over in smaller web publications on the Mainland like Zaobao, but officials would only confirm that there was an incident, nothing more.
Annual legislature meetings begin in Beijing: Jason Leow in The Wall Street Journal reports:
China’s legislature starts its annual session this week and is expected to focus on a slate of senior cabinet appointments and proposals for what could become the biggest government restructuring in at least a decade.
The meetings, currently called ‘NPC and CPPCC Annual Session’ in government literature, will last for the next 11 days. The China Daily has a large special section on the meetings.
All about the new airport: David Feng has posted a huge gallery of captioned images of Beijing’s massive new airport.
No more free lunch, even here?: At Global Voices Online, Bob Chen shows some netizen reactions to a copyright-infringemet lawsuit launched against P2P platform Xunlei, and explains how the case is different from the one that Baidu beat back.