China Goes For The Block

 blocks the Guardian, censorship-tracking website says

The Guardian’s website has been completely blocked in China, according to a censorship-tracking website.

The website was first blocked on Tuesday, according to the website greatfire.org. Numerous attempts to access the site from multiple browsers, devices and locations across Beijing all failed without the aid of firewall-circumventing software.

China's leadership is known to block websites that it deems a threat – Bloomberg and the New York Times have been blocked since 2012, when they published lengthy investigations revealing the vast wealth accumulated by the families of senior leaders. 

The reasons for the Guardian block are unclear – no China-related stories published by the Guardian in the past two days would obviously be perceived as dangerous by the country's leadership. One article, published on 6 January, explores tensions in China’s ethnically-divided north-western region Xinjiang, but the Guardian has covered the subject before without any noticeable fallout.

Isn't China great always demanding freedom of passage in international waters yet they claim almost the entire South China sea, that there be open skies while at the same time creating an air defense zone that includes parts of South Korea and Japan, believes that people should have the right to self determination, but the same principles can't be applied to China when it comes to Tibet and Xinjiang in western   China.  But China is all for freedom.