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(Hosting-NewsWire.com, November 14, 2012 ) Redding, CA -- As an important meeting of that nation’s Communist Party gets underway, Google says its search engine and its other Internet services have been blocked in China. The week-long ruling party congress is going on in Beijing. It is scheduled to select China’s new leaders for the next 10 years, including successors for President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
The Mountain View, California-based company said its data showed its services became unavailable in China on Friday about 5:00 p.m. Beijing time, near the end of the second day of the Chinese Communist Party congress.
Friday was also the day the Communist Party held press events for the international press. Those sessions largely featured pre-scripted presentations by party officials, who dodged questions about recent corruption scandals.
In this year alone, former Politburo member and Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai was removed from office and his wife convicted of murdering a British national, reportedly in a dispute over a business deal. The New York Times also published a lengthy story which claimed the family of Prime Minister Wen had amassed a $2.7 billion fortune. Both the English and Chinese websites of the Times were blocked in China after the story appeared.
Some observers speculate the new move to block Google access in China was prompted by the Chinese government’s desire to limit access to politically sensitive information about the party Congress discussions and the new leaders expected to emerge from it. The party meeting is expected to select Xi Jinping to replace President Hu, and Li Keqiang to succeed Prime Minister Wen.
The Associated Press reported it tried to check on the Google blocking by calling leading Chinese agencies, including the state council information office, the Foreign Ministry, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The news agency’s calls to Beijing went unanswered on Saturday morning.
Unlike Google, China’s own widely-used Baidu search engine was not blocked, but Baidu search results routinely do not include content deemed objectionable to the Chinese government.
Google has been the target of earlier censorship efforts in China. After drawing criticism in the West for its earlier position of cooperating with the Chinese government, Google decided in 2010 to end self-censoring its search results there. So as not to run afoul of China’s law, Google moved the servers for its Chinese search engine to Hong Kong, which has less onerous censorship rules.
The company says it has experienced intermittent blocking of its search engine and other Internet services since it changed its policy. The company also says China has blocked its popular video site YouTube since 2009.
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