China Is Trying to Give the Internet a Death Blow

There’s only one remaining way to get unfiltered access to the outside world in China — and Beijing just banned it.

Foreign Policy
Aug 28, 2017 · 8 min read
This photo taken on August 3, 2017 shows women walking past an Apple store in Beijing — GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images

By James Palmer

I live in the only country in the world where the internet gets worse every year — at least if you’re trying to look at YouTube or Twitter or…

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