China back to blocking websites

21 December 2008 | 15:17 - By Stefano Boscutti

The Chinese government has quietly begun preventing access again to websites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games in China in August.

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Liu Jianchao, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, said at his semi-weekly news conference on Tuesday in Beijing that the Chinese government had a right to censor websites that violate the country's laws. He added that "some websites," which he did not identify, had violated China's law against secession by suggesting that there are two Chinas - a reference to the Beijing government's longstanding position that mainland China and Taiwan form a single China.  The New York Times website was one of the first to be blocked after it ran the story.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/world/asia/17china.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/world/asia/20china.html
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/

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