China's Online Censors Block Xi Web Searches

    Date: 
    2 July 2012

    China’s online censors went into overdrive on Friday, blocking internet searches and references to Xi Jinping, the man anointed as the country’s president-in-waiting, after US news service Bloomberg published a forensic report on the fortune amassed by his relatives.

    Access to Bloomberg’s news feed was also blocked following the story’s publication.