China Targets `Foreign Forces' in Web Crackdown
China plans to crack down on online information from "overseas hostile forces" which, when translated, means "everyone."
China plans to crack down on online information from "overseas hostile forces" which, when translated, means "everyone."
The move is part of efforts to step up a crackdown on online smut, gambling, fraud and other offenses, said Wang Chen, chief of the Cabinet's Information Office, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. "We will strengthen the blocking of harmful information from outside China to prevent harmful information from being disseminated in China and withstand online penetration by overseas hostile forces," Wang was quoted as saying.