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The party “want to make sure it’s all tied up, they want to make sure that it’s all properly controlled”, Bandurski said. “When you are paranoid, you can overreact.”
By Edward White in Seoul, Stephen Foley in New York amd Gloria Li in Hong Kong for the Financial Times
TED, the US non-profit famous for snappy speeches from visionary leaders, espouses the belief that there is no greater force for changing the world than an idea.
But the group's days of spreading ideas to China's 1.4bn people are now in question after it drew the ire of another powerful force: the Chinese Communist party's security hawks.
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