Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China
From Sina At the gate of No.1 Experimental Elementary School of Weiyang District, Xi’an, children standing in lines were divided into two markedly different groups: one wearing red scarves, and the other wearing green scarves. “You don’t study well, and wear a green scarf. Mine is the real red scarf…” One kid said to another. [...]
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If one thinks perp walk is a violation of a suspect’s or a defendant’s human rights, he may find the following story utterly distasteful. A woman thief was caught red-handed in the city of Taizhou, in east China’s Zhejiang province. Instead of calling the police right away, people at the scene ripped off her top [...]
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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, among many other popular foreign websites and web services, are blocked by China’s Great Firewall, an infrastructure designed to make some internet content inaccessible to Chinese internet users, unless they use proxy or VPN to get around it. Gmail and Google search engine are blocked intermittently, and even when they are [...]
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Diplomatic relations between Japan and China have frosted to a freezing point since September after dispute over sovereignty of Senkaku, or Diaoyu, a group of uninhabited islets which is currently controlled by Japan but also claimed by China. If any tie between the two Asian powers is unaffected, it would be the one formed by [...]
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