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China Blocks Access To Internet Sites

Compiled From Wire Services

The Chinese government has made good on a promise to cut off access to Internet sites it considers obscene or politically dangerous. Industry observers say more than 100 World Wide Web sites have been blocked since last week.

Some of the censored sites are obvious targets - ones linked to exiled dissident groups and the rival government in Taiwan - but others, such as those run by U.S. news media, are less expected.

Americans using local Chinese Internet services have called the U.S. Embassy in the past two weeks after they found that they could no longer read U.S. newspapers online.