China to protect online whistleblowers, but only via official site


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Sep 2013

A generic picture of a computer keyboard. REUTERS/Catherine Benson

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's government will protect from retribution and attacks people who use the Internet to report corruption, but only those who use an officially sanctioned website to do so, a senior official said on Thursday.

President Xi Jinping has made fighting pervasive graft a central theme of his new administration, warning that the problem is so severe it could threaten the survival of the ruling Communist Party.

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