[quote]China has banned a Swedish-made computer game accused of “distorting history and damaging China’s sovereignty,” by showing Manchuria, Tibet and Xinjiang as independent nations, state press said yesterday.
The computer game, “Hearts of Iron,” made by the Stockholm-based games developer Paradox Entertainment, also showed Taiwan as a part of Japan, Xinhua news agency said, citing a censorship committee under the Ministry of Culture.
“All these severely distort historical facts and violate China’s gaming and Internet service regulations,” the ministry said. “The game should be immediately prohibited.”
All websites are banned from releasing the game and copies of the game on CD-ROM will be confiscated. Sellers will be punished, it said. Internet bars that provide downloads of the game or fail to stop surfers who download, install or play the game, will be fined or even ordered to stop business, it said.[/quote]
Insecure, much? Sheesh…what do you all think? It’s just a damn game and China is getting anal retentive about it. :raspberry:
Different countries same logic!
Maomaniacal China is not different from the Western words
with their pro-Zionist and other censorship laws and practices.
Idem the Islamic words with their specific censorships.
What’s the difference?!
Has anybody seen “Hot Dog: The Movie”? (I wonder if it was every anything OTHER than a movie.)
The conclusion featured a kind of ski race called “Chinese Downhill.” (A Chinese character asks innocently, “What is ‘Chinese Downhill’?” The answer: No rules.)
So maybe China should ban that. For its accurate depiction of Chinese society, and hurting the feelings of blah blah blah.
In the 1980s, Michael Cimino’s Year Of The Dragon was banned in Taiwan because it made Chinese look bad as there are no Chinese gangsters. 
one time i was playing civ 3 and i started as the japanese. and the first thing i did was conquer china! 
please tell us more about the game if you can. is it a game set in the future or in the past?
my 1943 Encyclopaedia Britanica World Atlas on plate 54/55 clearly delineates taiwan (formosa) with japan and manchukuo as an independent entity.
china, seemingly, has a problem with historical facts.
my 1934 webster’s has japan, taiwan and manchukuo all in the same shade of orange. mongolia has it’s own shade of charcoal. the republic of china is yellow and subdivided into three regions:tibet, sinkiang and china. china was a REPUBLIC with seemingly three distinct divisions/states. i can only guess that these “states” of the republic were abolished when the ROC went into exile.
It’s set during World War II.
And it not set in some parallel universe either, seems a serious historical game.
In point of fact, during World War II the former Ching territories were divided into about a dozen countries, under half that many actual powers.
Russia: controlled Outer Mongolia in fact but not in theory
Tibet: declared independence during the late 1930’s
Xinjiang: local warlords changed allegiances constantly
Chinese Communists: Gansu / Shaanxi region
Kuomintang: An ever-shrinking territory in South China
Japan: recognized Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, North China, and East China as separate countries under their enlightened guidance.
Southwest China: This area is the hardest to keep track of. Lots of fiefdoms and border changes.
Commie bastards!!!
China Places Conditions on Britney Tour
SHANGHAI, China - China to Britney: Come perform but leave the revealing outfits at home.
Britney Spears’ first China tour has received Culture Ministry approval, but officials want to know what she’s wearing before she hits the stage, the official China News Service reported Tuesday.
Spears, who’s on a world tour to promote her latest album, “In The Zone,” will perform five concerts in Shanghai and Beijing sometime next year, CNS said.
Wang Enqiang, an agent for Spears’ Chinese promoter, Beijing Poly Culture and Art Co. Ltd., said the pop star planned to come to the mainland in 2004, but he had no information about ministry concerns.
However, the 22-year-old’s sexy image has caused concern. Culture officials have asked the concert’s Chinese organizers to guarantee she doesn’t show too much skin on stage, CNS said.
“Relevant departments will carry out strict reviews of Britney Spears’ performance clothing,” the report said.
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