Chinese officials recently announced they will no longer consider death tolls and other relevant information about natural disasters to be state secrets. On the same day, China Telecom blocked Internet phone service from Skype. That left observers wondering whether freedom is growing or decreasing in China, a tough issue for American firms.
Some might argue that blocking access to cheaper and more secure telephone systems like Skype was an economic rather than a political move by China Telecom. But no one can deny that China, still a one-party Marxist-Leninist dictatorship, remains obsessed with information control.
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