The timing of Rupert Murdoch's quest to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting is perhaps a fitting end to the News Corp chairman's nearly two-decades-long love affair with China.
No single action by Mr Murdoch poisoned his China expansion plans as much as his celebratory speech in 1993 to toast the turnround of BSkyB.
“Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere,” Mr Murdoch said then – the same year he purchased a majority stake in Star TV in Hong Kong.
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