Summary: Despite having taken a largely hands off approach to managing coverage of Burma by relying on editors to engage in "self-censorship," Chinese authorities nevertheless have required reporters to restrict their description of events in Burma to words like "disturbance," so as not to legitimize the actions of anti-junta demonstrators. Discussion of China?s role in Burma is forbidden. While Burma is a sensitive story given China?s experience during the 1989 democracy movement, some journalists tell us that Burma is also just one of many international stories and is not particularly newsworthy to Chinese readers. End summary.