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Chris

The video was a nice touch. Watching and hearing you gasp for air really brought home the altitude issue, and the scenery is fantastic. I really must make the trip myself, though I've heard Beijing likes freelancers even less.

Jimmy

They didn't want harm to come to you :)

bingster

Well, you did have a history of working with Student for Free Tibet (SFT), and coincidentally, despite your claim of no prior knowledge, 5 members from SFT were again staging a flag unfurling in the Himalaya Base Camp you were visiting.

I am sorry but Public Security Bureau seem to have a very good reason to be suspicious. Maybe you need to inform PSB you no longer maintain a working relationship with SFT, and any future run-in with SFT flag unfurling will be purely coincidental.

http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/china/2006/06/the_news_media_.html

Tim

Okay, bingster, I won't delete your posting. But your suggestion that I have a "history of working with Students for a Free Tibet" is not based in any fact. I and several other curious foreign correspondents in Beijing once showed up outside the Beijing railway station for one of their banner unfurlings. I wrote a blog about it that was quite critical. I've also showed up at the White House for an event or two with President Bush. Does that give me a "history of working" with him? I've visited Shining Path rebels in prisons in Peru and cocaine traffickers in Colombia on different stories. So I guess I have a "history of working" with them, too. I've interviewed a spokesman for Hamas. I confess. I'm a journalist. I'll gladly have a history of working with anyone who might lead me to where there is news.

Lina

Acknowledging that "China is a sovereign nation", you still went where you were not allowed to. As a guest, the least you could do is to show some respect for the regulations in your host country. It's not for you to decide whether it's a good reg or a bad one. Foreigners in the U.S. are prohibited to do a lot things, sometimes perfectly unharmful things like taking the patent bar exam, not to mention working in a national laboratory. If someone does things he is not supposed to, he will lose his legal status and practically never be able to get into U.S. again. Yet you seem to be living comfortably in Beijing.

Lina

It seems I can't edit my own comment.

"It's not for you to decide whether it's a good reg or a bad one." I took it back. What I really meant is, good reg or bad one, it's not for you to decide which one to follow.

TaiTai

Fkn fair play to you mate. I'd like to do the base camp jaunt myself at some point in the not too distant. Give me a shout if you have a spare evening in BJ for a beer and a chat.

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