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...once not terribly surprising and, to those tuned to American notions of free speech and expression, quite alarming. The internet is, it turns out, a scary place for certain norms of Chinese governance.Many of the sites made inaccessible by what has been coined “The Great Firewall?? are those discussing specific high-tension questions of Chinese politics: sites detailing the lot of the controversial Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, sites about the Tiananmen Square protests, and some others about Taiwanese independence. Also blocked, however, are sources of general international news—the BBC web site...
When PetroChina first listed itself on the New York Stock Exchange in 2000, the company promised investors that none of the capital raised from the initial public offering would end up in the coffers of the Sudanese regime. The company asserted that a “firewall?? separated its assets from those of its parent company—and that the Sudanese holdings would remain in CNPC’s hands...
HOLES IN THE ‘FIREWALL?...
...that time, PetroChina’s chairman Ma Fucai said that a “firewall?? between PetroChina and its parent company would ensure that none of the IPO revenues would go toward funding ventures in Sudan...
Although the extent and nature of China’s tightened controls is difficult to determine, the so-called “great firewall?? blocks access to Chinese citizens who try to access or search for “controversial” or anti-government material on the web—blocking searches for the spiritual group ‘Falun Gong,’ for instance, a group that is critical of the government...
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