China blocks Economist, Time websites over Xi Jinping articles

[dray]

China blocks Economist, Time websites over Xi Jinping articles

• Foreign

APRIL 10, 2016 BY ONLINE

The Economist and Time have joined the list of foreign news websites currently blocked in mainland China. The sites appear to have been censored as a result of recently published cover articles in the magazines critical of the growing power of China’s president, Xi Jinping.

According to GreatFire.org, a website that tracks internet and social media censorship in China, The Economist’s website and its cover article have been completely censored since April 2. The Economist’s mobile app, through which users can download the magazine and read its online articles, has also been censored. Several public accounts managed by The Economist on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media app, have also been suspended. However, the websites of the publication’s umbrella company, The Economist Group, and the group’s consulting arm, The Economist Intelligence Unit, have not been blocked.

GreatFire.org also shows that those searching for the Time website or the magazine’s cover article have experienced frequent connection resets since April 5. China’s system of internet controls, known as the Great Firewall, resets the connections of web requests that contain certain censored keywords. The two magazines published cover articles online this week examining the tightening control Xi has exerted over Chinese politics and the cult of personality he has built around himself.

“He has retreated into the world of Mao: personality cults, plaudits to the state sector and diatribes against foreigners supposedly intent on destroying China,” Hannah Beech of Time wrote. “Mr. Xi has acquired more power than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong,” The Economist article states. “It was supposed to let him get things done. What is going wrong?”

China blocks Economist, Time websites over Xi Jinping articles | Pakistan Today

 

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China Blocks Economist and Time Websites, Apparently Over Xi Jinping Articles

By EMILY FENG APRIL 8, 2016

President Xi Jinping of China at the annual National People’s Congress in Beijing. The Economist and Time have published articles examining the tightening control Mr. Xi has exerted over Chinese politics.CreditNg Han Guan/Associated Press

The Economist and Time have joined the list of foreign news websites currently blocked in mainland China. The sites appear to have been censored as a result of recently published cover articles in the magazines critical of the growing power of China’s president, Xi Jinping.

According to GreatFire.org, a website that tracks Internet and social media censorship in China, The Economist’s website and its cover article have been completely censored since April 2. The Economist’s mobile app, through which users can download the magazine and read its online articles, has also been censored.

Several public accounts managed by The Economist on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media app, have also been suspended. However, the websites of the publication’s umbrella company, The Economist Group, and the group’s consulting arm, The Economist Intelligence Unit, have not been blocked.


GreatFire.org also shows that those searching for the Time website or the magazine’s cover article have experienced frequent connection resets since April 5. China’s system of Internet controls, known as the Great Firewall, resets the connections of web requests that contain certain censored keywords. Time’s mobile app is still functioning.

The two magazines published cover articles online this week examining the tightening control Mr. Xi has exerted over Chinese politics and the cult of personality he has built around himself.

“He has retreated into the world of Mao: personality cults, plaudits to the state sector and diatribes against foreigners supposedly intent on destroying China,” Hannah Beech of Time wrote.


Since taking office in 2013, Mr. Xi has cracked down on both Chinese and foreign news media and has embarked on a wide-ranging anticorruption campaign that has resulted in the arrests of thousands of government officials. Both cover articles criticize Mr. Xi’s strongman approach to governance.

“Mr. Xi has acquired more power than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong,” The Economist article states. “It was supposed to let him get things done. What is going wrong?”

John Parker, the Beijing bureau chief of The Economist, said the publication received no warning “that he was aware of” about the website’s being blocked. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs did contact the publication regarding its cover article but did not discuss blocking the website, he said.

“They expressed their displeasure about the article in question and wanted me to forward their displeasure to the editors in London, which I did,” Mr. Parker said.

In 2001, Time was banned from Chinese newsstands after writing a cover article about Falun Gong, a group outlawed by the Chinese government. That ban was lifted only years later. A Time representative could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Economist has had individual articles blocked in mainland China before, including an August 2015 article about how the Chinese government had reframed historical narratives to justify Mr. Xi’s military ambitions. This is the first time its app has been blocked.

The Chinese government often blocks access to articles or entire websites that contain content it deems unfavorable. Most recently, all mentions of Panama and Panama Papers were blocked on Chinese social media after files leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca detailing the ownership of offshore shell companies, several of them linked to relatives of high-level Chinese leaders, were published. Chinese editors were instructedto remove any mention of the Panama Papers from their sites.

The New York Times’s English- and Chinese-language sites have been blocked since October 2012, after the newspaper published an exposé on the hidden wealth of the family of former Premier Wen Jiabao. How long The Economist and Time websites will remain blocked is unclear.

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China blocks Economist, Time websites over Xi Jinping articles

• Foreign

APRIL 10, 2016 BY ONLINE

The Economist and Time have joined the list of foreign news websites currently blocked in mainland China. The sites appear to have been censored as a result of recently published cover articles in the magazines critical of the growing power of China’s president, Xi Jinping.

According to GreatFire.org, a website that tracks internet and social media censorship in China, The Economist’s website and its cover article have been completely censored since April 2. The Economist’s mobile app, through which users can download the magazine and read its online articles, has also been censored. Several public accounts managed by The Economist on WeChat, a popular Chinese social media app, have also been suspended. However, the websites of the publication’s umbrella company, The Economist Group, and the group’s consulting arm, The Economist Intelligence Unit, have not been blocked.

GreatFire.org also shows that those searching for the Time website or the magazine’s cover article have experienced frequent connection resets since April 5. China’s system of internet controls, known as the Great Firewall, resets the connections of web requests that contain certain censored keywords. The two magazines published cover articles online this week examining the tightening control Xi has exerted over Chinese politics and the cult of personality he has built around himself.

“He has retreated into the world of Mao: personality cults, plaudits to the state sector and diatribes against foreigners supposedly intent on destroying China,” Hannah Beech of Time wrote. “Mr. Xi has acquired more power than any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong,” The Economist article states. “It was supposed to let him get things done. What is going wrong?”

China blocks Economist, Time websites over Xi Jinping articles | Pakistan Today

This kind of blocking has severe drawbacks like this one for example.

China's Great Firewall inventor forced to use VPN live on stage to dodge his own creation • The Register
China's Great Firewall inventor forced to use VPN live on stage to dodge his own creation
Fang bitten

7 Apr 2016 at 19:09, Kieren McCarthy
The architect of China's Great Firewall was forced to use a VPN to bypass his own creation in a lecture this week on internet safety.

Fang Binxing was speaking at his old university, the Harbin Institute of Technology in Heilongjiang, China, when he attempted to access webpages hosted in South Korea as a way to illustrate a point about internet sovereignty.

The projected image from his laptop came up "Page not found" – a common occurrence for Chinese internet users who live behind the censorship apparatus built by Binxing and run by the Chinese government.

To the audience's amazement, Binxing then tried to bypass the firewall using a VPN installed on his computer – the same tool secretly installed by millions of Chinese to get around censorship efforts, but whose use is heavily frowned upon by officials.

As his compatriots looked on, Binxing then had the equally frustrating experience of dealing with a slow and unstable connection to the outside world, with the link falling over twice as he tried to access Facebook and Google.

In the end, he resorted to using Baidu to grab a screenshot of the Google homepage and continued with his talk. But a planned question-and-answer session at the end of the talk was abruptly cancelled.

Binxing's problems were likely linked to an expansion of the Great Firewall in an effort to remove any mention of the Panama Papers leak story from this week.

As has been reported by China Digital Times – a service run by the University of California, Berkeley – the Chinese government has expanded its censorship of news surrounding the offshore banking habits of the world's elites to include not only relatives of high-ranking Chinese officials, but any mention at all of the Panama Papers.

The millions of files from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca show that the families of at least eight current and former members of China's politburo are among those shown to have used offshore accounts to hide or obscure their wealth. ®

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Fantastic Move

 

[yolo2016]

Fantastic Move

Why- do explain. You choose for yourself to be in democracy. Why did you not decide to go live in China instead- with its fantastic move of covering up for corruption, plus censorship?

Do yo think Pakistan should allow Sharif the same? Do you think pakistan should get rid of elections. Sharif was also cited as President Xi for hiding money in offshore banks.

Would it be okay if Pakistan shuts down all media, restricts pakistanis right to dissent and cuts off pakistani internet from the world?

China does not allow muslims under 18 from observing Ramadan. Often calls its muslim population as terrorists- can France do the same "fantastic" move for you?

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

What kind of Legal Authority does the "PANAMA" papers have ? Are they a binding document between two nations ? No

Did Pakistan REQUEST from nation of PANAMA to please give us a summary? No

Are they a word of God? No

Mr Sharif , is a reputable leader of Pakistan , with a pedigree of serving nation for 30 years , he was exiled once and as such some of his family now runs international companies. He took loan from Saudi Arabia while he lived there.

Also Pakistan Pardoned all politic ans as part of "NATIONAL CONCILIATION ORDINANCE" project in 2007 to bring reputable leaders back to Pakistan.

There is nothing fancy or out of ordinary in PANAMA papers , who have no legal authority over the Supreme Court of Pakistan or the constitution of Pakistan

Panama paper is like Tabloid

Why should Private Channels in Pakistan talk about a TABLOID paper when on a NATIONAL level all politicians were Pardoned in 2007

It is a known FACT that Nawaz's Sons live overseas (since there were exiled in 1999) and they settled down in international countries

Nothing SENSATIONAL about it , unless it was released with Objective to slow down CPEC and then paid media (ehm ehem sponsored channels) to put a preception into public minds

I think correct move by China , National Interest over fake allegations

SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN , decides who is guilty or not not PANAMA papers Tabloid

 

[gambit]

Why- do explain. You choose for yourself to be in democracy. Why did you not decide to go live in China instead- with its fantastic move of covering up for corruption, plus censorship?

He believes censorship is for other people, not for himself.

 

[Place Of Space]

These newspapers and journalists are very boring. In order to attract public attention, they will use any malicious method.

 

[yolo2016]

These newspapers and journalists are very boring. In order to attract public attention, they will use any malicious method.

You think journalists reporting are at fault not the "actual documents" they uncovered?

 

[SamantK]

What kind of Legal Authority does the "PANAMA" papers have ? Are they a binding document between two nations ? No

Did Pakistan REQUEST from nation of PANAMA to please give us a summary? No

Are they a word of God? No

Mr Sharif , is a reputable leader of Pakistan , with a pedigree of serving nation for 30 years , he was exiled once and as such some of his family now runs international companies. He took loan from Saudi Arabia while he lived there.

Also Pakistan Pardoned all politic ans as part of "NATIONAL CONCILIATION ORDINANCE" project in 2007 to bring reputable leaders back to Pakistan.

There is nothing fancy or out of ordinary in PANAMA papers , who have no legal authority over the Supreme Court of Pakistan or the constitution of Pakistan

Panama paper is like Tabloid

Why should Private Channels in Pakistan talk about a TABLOID paper when on a NATIONAL level all politicians were Pardoned in 2007

It is a known FACT that Nawaz's Sons live overseas (since there were exiled in 1999) and they settled down in international countries

Nothing SENSATIONAL about it , unless it was released with Objective to slow down CPEC and then paid media (ehm ehem sponsored channels) to put a preception into public minds

I think correct move by China , National Interest over fake allegations

SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN , decides who is guilty or not not PANAMA papers Tabloid

This guy here is a piece of work..