---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 07 Aug 2000 New in IGCS - Internet in China: China's Internet "Information Skirmish" Ed./Corp.: U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China, Jan. 2000 URL: http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/webwar.htm Language: English. Self description: "Summary: The Chinese government and some Chinese both inside and outside China have been fighting an "information skirmish" on the Internet for over three years. The Chinese government filters the flow of information into China. Dissident groups mail thousands of electronic periodicals into China. They constantly switch originating addresses to evade filtering. Some foreign websites are blocked but Chinese surfers often use proxy servers to evade the Great Red Firewall. Email from China cannot reach certain foreign addresses but using a foreign email account (such as Hotmail) can solve that problem. The old Chinese saying "For every measure taken on high there is a counter measure down below" is illustrated by the wide use of anti-filtering countermeasures. Many Chinese government rules such as the October 1999 net rules banning foreign news articles on Chinese websites have short half-lives. Even banned books sometimes appear in full text on PRC web sites. " Site contents: (1) PRC Government, Dissidents in Net "Information Skirmish"; (2) Many Use Proxy Servers to Evade the Great Red Firewall; (3) Picture.exe Virus Mails Encryption Keys Back to China; (4) Chinese Language E-Publications From Abroad Come to China; (5) VOA [i.e. Voice of America - HL] E-Mail Broadcasts Are Usually Blocked; (6) Internet Forums, Books Online, Military Websites and ICQ; (7) Online Chatting, Telephony Opens The Door Ever Wider; (8) October Ban on Foreign News Stories on Web Sites Has Faded; (9) The Short Half-Life of Chinese Regulations; (10) Banned Books on Chinese Government Websites. Resource suggested by David Cowhig via H-Asia. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L