Feb 18, 2016 (Quartz): In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s new rules (link in Chinese and link in English) could, if they were enforced as written, essentially shut down China as a...
Read MoreDec. 26, 2015 (Washington Post) — The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a written statement that Ursula Gauthier, the Beijing correspondent for French news magazine L’Obs, would not be issued press credentials for 2016, effectively expelling her. Gauthier drew Beijing’s ire by writing an essay that questioned the Chinese government’s rhetoric on terrorism. In the statement, Lu Kang, a spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry,...
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