IV. Protecting Your Chinese Contacts


“I won’t do stories about forced evictions anymore because there is a chance that there will be thugs there and I will be beaten. I will be the Chinese guy [with a foreign reporter], so I’ll be a target.”

—Chinese assistant to a foreign correspondent, Beijing, June 12, 2007

“I was told [by security officials] that ‘you are a Chinese, you must take your side.’”

—Chinese assistant of a Beijing-based foreign correspondent, Beijing, June 12, 2007