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Protest Hide and Seek in Beijing

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Aug 11, 2008
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“Where are you going?” a Hotel G employee demands.

“Err… I’m going to see a friend on the eighth floor,” says one western hack.

“There is no eighth floor in our hotel,” the man, the Spanish director of guest services in the new boutique hotel in Beijing, snaps back.

Seven of us sneak up the side stairs to room 612 where a nervous young German man asks us t…

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