
In January 1967, ITN’s Sandy Gall reported from the Bamboo Curtain on the advent of ‘China Watchers’ at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution. From the border in Hong Kong, the role of both “loud” and “silent” watchers, in the international press and foreign intelligence services, were becoming increasingly crucial to understanding the new direction of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, as the purging of capitalist elements intensified.
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