Chinese New York Times Weibo account suspended and then reinstated

The New York Times has just launched a Chinese language web site, targeting China's "educated, affluent, global citizens." On Thursday, cn.nytimes.com went up in an effort to expand its reach into international markets and to gain revenue from luxury ads targeting China's growing upper echelon. The site will be a combination of translations from the New York Times main website as well as articles written by Chinese editors and local freelance journalists.

The New York Times, ever aware of the Great Firewall hosted its servers outside of China in an attempt to mitigate Chinese censorship. Joseph Kahn, the foreign editor of the NYT, said: "China operates a very vigorous firewall. We have no control over that. We hope and expect that Chinese officials will welcome what we're doing."

Well it seems that Mr. Kahn can rest a little bit easier tonight. Although it was earlier reported that the site's offical Weibo was terminated for no clear reason, the page has been reinstated. (You can check it out here). Weibo has been known to ban accounts for posting politically unsavory news or repeatedly mentioning forbidden buzzwords, but given that the site was brand new, they could not have possibly posted anything controversial.

It remains a mystery why the page was banned in the first place but the most probable reason is the likelihood that the New York Times would post articles that went against Chinese media directives. It seems that Weibo has given the new site a chance but the more important question going forward will be whether the Net Nanny will give the site the space it needs to grab the eyeballs it needs to survive.

Source: Shanghaiist

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Jun 21, 2012 China_China protests against Vietnamese law of sea

The Chinese government has reaffirmed that Xisha and Nansha islands are the territory of China and urged Vietnam to stop and correct its erroneous practice and actions, said China's foreign ministry spokesman. The spokesman, Hong Lei, told Thursday regular news briefing that the unilateral action taken by Vietnam National Assembly in adopting the "Vietnam Law of the Sea" is illegal and invalid. "China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and their adjacent waters. It is unlawful and invalid for any other country to claim sovereignty over the Xisha Islands and the Nansha Islands and take any corresponding actions," said Hong Lei. Hong said Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun summoned Vietnamese Ambassador to China Nguyen Van Tho on Thursday to lodge a solemn representation to the Vietnamese side concerning the issue, saying the law infringes upon China's sovereignty, and China strongly protests against and firmly opposes such a move by Vietnam. "Vietnam's unilateral action of complicating and enlarging the problems has violated the consensus reached by leaders of the two sides and the spirit of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC), thus unfavorable for peace and stability in the South China Sea region. The practice and actions by the Vietnamese side are illegal and invalid. China will firmly safeguard its state sovereignty. China demands Vietnam to stop and correct immediately its erroneous practice and actions ...

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