Um....I'm not 100% sure that this is right ;-)

I'm not getting a connection to the .cn site. Redirected to .com instead. Erik-Jan.

So you haven't been following the long ethical debate about Google agreeing to heavily censor their content delivery in China, then...

Try clearing out your cookies and cache, that should stop it.

I think he has and that is why this was posted ???? Erik-Jan.

"Neil Brownlee" wrote

I totally agree Neil, it is not right, but it just serves to remind us that China is not a true democracy despite all the up-beat press lately and should also remind us how lucky we are to live in one.

Goodness don't go using phrases like true democracy I can think of two english speaking 1st world countries where one man decides foreign policy and he was elected twice on very shaky ground Derek

Google.cn is heavily censored. It was the only way Google could get CN govt to accept them.

And that policy seems to be mirrored where he was neither eligible to stand nor elected!

The power of trade - if we all didn't really need China for it's cheaply made goods and the purchase of our raw materials we could tell them where to go with their appalling human rights records. As it is, we don't condemn them, we don't criticise them in any serious way, and we do enormous amounts of trade with them.

A sad reflection on the realities of globalisation.

Karen