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China censors news of shoe-throwing attack on Wen Jiabao China has reacted angrily to the shoe-throwing attack on its prime minister in Cambridge and censored mention of it from the media. By Richard Spencer in Beijing and Malcolm Moore in Shanghai Last Updated: 4:52AM GMT 03 Feb 2009 The foreign ministry in Beijing issued a statement calling the behaviour of the man who threw a trainer at Wen Jiabao during a speech "despicable" and saying it expressed its "strong displeasure". But the statement did not describe exactly what happened and the incident has not been described in television, newspaper or...

February 2, 2009 Protester throws shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Ben Macintyre, Cambridge and Nico Hines A protester threw a shoe at Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Premier, today as he delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University. Mr Wen was coming to the last part of his address when a young Western-looking man with dark hair stood up, blew a whistle and shouted: “How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator? How can you listen to these lies?” The man, who appeared to be in his early twenties, then took off his heavy shoe and...