Space, the final frontier of Chinese news manipulation

First Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei waves before the blast off of Shenzhou 5 Photograph: Ligang/AP As the nation held its collective breath, 's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, floated back to the motherland, having orbited Earth 14 times in Shenzhou 5, or Divine Capsule. It was October 2003, and the national broadcaster carried live coverage of the momentous event, from Yang's famous pleasantries in – "I feel good" – to the instant the capsule door opened to reveal the pale but smiling face of a hero, offering irrefutable evidence that China's maiden manned space voyage had gone off without a hitch. Or had it? In a lecture he gave to a group of journalism students last month, a top official at...

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