It's part of a pattern at the Post where they're gradually been getting rid of all the people who write interesting copy on China or Hong Kong and toning down the paper. It's basically a process of self-censorship.

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It's been successfully cheating its way with its nuclear program for something like 20 years, so I think a lot of people will say, 'lets not jump on this and let's not be too hasty'.

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Instead we were filling the newspaper with bland, harmless stories, and if there was anything sensitive we would run agency copy and sort of try and downplay it.

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