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China censors WSJ story

Chinese authorities have blocked online access to an article published on the English-language and Chinese-language websites of The Wall Street Journal that describes how a top Chinese state banker’s commercial success hasn’t translated into promotion within the Communist Party.

A story on the Journal website states, “The Journal had posted the English-language article about Jiang Jianqing, the longtime chairman of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., at about noon Tuesday in China. It posted the Chinese version of the article on its Chinese-language site about two hours later.

“By 6 p.m. Tuesday in China, access to both the English- and Chinese-language versions of the article had been blocked. A post linking to the article on the Journal’s Sina Weibo microblog account was also blocked. A Sina spokesman said he didn’t have an immediate comment.

“For more go to China Real Time.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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