China says it will ban performers

July 18, 2008 Under the new mandate, Chinese event organizers will be expected to scrutinize acts and material and ban any performance that might threaten national unity, stir ethnic hatred or violate Beijing's strict policy on state-approved religions and "cultural norms." Spielberg dropped his name from a committee to design the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics over China's trade with Sudan, and Stone pondered aloud whether bad karma resulting from China's rule of Tibet was linked to the deadly earthquake in Sichuan on May 12. Emma is a joint venture partner of Ticketmaster in China.

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