China unlocks Taiwan newspapers
p2pnet.net News:- At least one of two important Taiwan newspapers is now open to Chinese surfers after years of being blocked.
“Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council said that users in the populous Pearl River Delta and other parts of China over the past two weeks had accessed previously blocked Web sites run by the China Times (news.chinatimes.com) and the United Daily News (http://udn.com/NEWS/),” says Reuters.
“A search of the sites in Beijing found the United Daily was accessible but the China Times was still blocked.”
Both newspapers lean towards the Nationalist Party, or KMT, a former Communist enemy that in recent years has taken a, “conciliatory view towards China as economic ties grow,” says the story, adding:
“Unblocking the Web sites could be a signal of support to KMT leaders, said Li Chunming, a Beijing historian and former Chinese TV network employee. ‘But if the papers agreed to it, there definitely won’t be any sensitive content online’, he said.”
Also See:
Reuters – China unblocks Taiwan newspaper Web sites, February 5, 2007
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