Even LinkedIn China, a banal corporate network, has been shut down.
Domestic economists and stock analysts are required to be upbeat in public, diluting the value of domestic content. Municipalities no longer feed bus and train schedules to Google Maps. Chinese ships have stopped broadcasting location data. Now regional governments and agencies are increasingly blocking offshore access to online information. Parochial local politicians who once naively assumed foreigners could not or would not read Chinese have learned otherwise. Overseas critics translated official pronouncements, police blogs and more to bolster their campaigns. Short sellers could use discrepancies between domestic corporate reports and U.S. More reliable data helped the country attract over $3.2 trillion in foreign direct investment stock by 2020.Īccess to the internet also allowed journalists to listen in to local complaints, contradicting rosy state media. It will obstruct the flow of the most useful capital.Ĭhinese bureaucrats have never been particularly welcoming to outsiders, but the post-Mao Zedong reform and opening movement did give them a clearer view. Once focused on blocking offshore websites, authorities are increasingly hiding information from prying foreign eyes. HONG KONG, Jan 14 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The Great Firewall of China is starting to work in two directions.
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