Top Chinese State Media Editor Complains About Internet Access
- Global Times chief calls Internet access ‘extremely difficult’
- Hu, whose trade tweets have moved markets, later deleted post
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It’s well known that China’s Great Firewall blocks access to Google, Facebook and Twitter. But it’s rare for senior figures in China to openly complain about Internet access, much less the editor-in-chief of one of China’s most prolific state-run newspapers.
“Accessing external internet is extremely difficult as China’s National Day holiday is upcoming,” Hu Xijin, who runs the Communist Party-backed Global Times newspaper, posted on China’s Twitter-like microblogging service Weibo on Wednesday. “Even Global Times’s work is being affected.”