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U.S. envoy's name blocked in latest run-in with China
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| Last Edited | particleman Feb 27, 2011 12:20am |
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| News Date | Friday, February 25, 2011 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | China has blocked a microblog search of the Chinese name of the U.S. ambassador after he was seen near a pro-democracy gathering, the latest in a series of run-ins between a possible U.S. presidential candidate and the Communist Party.
China has tightened control over the Internet in the wake of the unrest sweeping through the Middle East, underscoring the party's anxiety over the easy spread of information that might challenge its one-party rule.
The online censorship coincides with a rash of detentions after an overseas Chinese-language website, Boxun, spread a call for "Jasmine Revolution" gatherings to press the Communist Party to make way for democratic change.
Ambassador Jon Huntsman, a fluent Mandarin speaker tipped as a Republican U.S. presidential candidate, was spotted in a crowd at a pro-democracy gathering outside a McDonald's on Beijing's Wangfujing shopping street on Sunday. U.S. officials later said he accidentally came across the gathering while out shopping.
Authorities are particularly worried that people who use online microblogs -- 125 million and growing -- could use them to mobilize.
Last week, Huntsman stood outside a Chinese court and criticized it for rejecting the appeal of an American jailed on industrial spying charges.
Days earlier, Huntsman posted messages on a Twitter-like Chinese microblog service, asking readers their opinions on a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about Internet freedom. His messages were deleted by censors. |
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