Yolanda feels as though she has sacrificed her principles and sold out to the hyper-sensitive authorities when her father forces her to discard her empowering, rebellious achievement of artistic self-expression for "two brief pages of stale compliments and the polite commonplaces on teachers.
She now lives near Washington, DC.Remarkably for an incident so politically sensitive, the authorities let foreign journalists go to Urumqi to cover the aftermath.
Under the heading "risks and assumptions", an assessment drawn up by EU officials listed "provision of equipment and trainings [sic] to sensitive national authorities (such as security services or border management) diverted for repressive aims; criticism by NGOs and civil society for engaging with repressive governments on migration (particularly in Eritrea and Sudan)".
Once believed to be the most profitable newspaper in the world, SCMP has been accused of burying news that it is sensitive to authorities in Beijing.
GCHQ says it can also seek a sensitive targeting authority (STA), which allows it snoop on any Briton "anywhere in the world" or any foreign national located in the UK.
Experts fear some 170 tons of fuel may leak into the environmentally sensitive waters if authorities cannot contain the spill.
His lawyers contend the extradition request was politically motivated and designed to keep Firtash out of the country at a sensitive time; US authorities insisted the timing was coincidental.
"These prosecutions show just how sensitive the Saudi authorities have become to the ability of ordinary citizens to voice opinions online that the government considers controversial or taboo," Sarah Leah Whitson, of Human Rights Watch, said.
Professor Chou said he was particularly taken aback because some of the lessons criticized centered on newspaper articles he had reprinted from the People's Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece -- and also because many of the topics deemed "too sensitive" by university authorities are now routinely raised in books and articles in China.
Its diplomats, for example, did eventually stop parroting their line about unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state and allow United Nations peacekeepers to be deployed in Sudan.The saga over Sudan shows how sensitive the Chinese authorities have become to criticism, despite their impassive reputation.
Club owners, sensitive to the authorities' periodic targeting of their venues, see the move as a concerted crackdown on nightlife.
