LOS ANGELES: China blocks local access to almost a quarter of the foreign news outlets accredited to report from the country with its "Great Firewall" of strict online censorship, according to a new analysis.
The more than 850 million Internet users in the Middle Kingdom are barred from viewing the publicly available websites of 23% of 215 international news organisations with journalists based in the country. Among the outlets publishing in English, the most widely spoken foreign language in China, 31% are blocked.