We have almost single handedly brought China to the economic first world, and formed our worst enemy to date. Russia only had military power, not economic power.

Most of it is still not coming to the mainstream media. Few today know how the "liberals" of the 1940s and early 50s undermined the free Chinese and how policy was influenced by communists inside the US government.

An interesting brief history is the 1951 While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It, by John T. Flynn who is, or used to be, famous for his The Roosevelt Myth in 1948, 2nd edition 1956..

Yes, China has been censoring the internet for decades, but some liberals have previously opposed it, including criticizing US companies like Microsoft and Google for caving into Chinese demands.

China censorship is not new. Our mainstream media reporting it is.

What is the motive?

China censorship is not new. Our mainstream media reporting it is.

What is the motive?

Indeed. China has not been free since just after WWII.

So interesting it is finally coming to mainstream media. Must just be Trump's policies that have changed the great China to a totalitarian mess!

You gotta leave a little if you lie that you are fair.

I tend to agree in general, but they don't just censor sites, but content.

The motives are the same... for sure!

The relatively free (for the PRC) economic system not in place does not translate even remotely to political and personal freedom. Even the economic freedom is limited and tenuousand may be lost with a shift in power within the Party.
Do not forget what happened to "Tank man" He disappeared never to be seen again.

If the communist government of China wanted to be true to itself, they'd block internet access all together.

I bet they are still pining for the old ways when people's lives were monitored, those who had independent thinking sent to Mongolia, passport was needed to travel to the next province, and no access was available to ANY news from the West.

You can't change the stripes of the beast. A hyena will always be a hyena.

Not for Biden, obviously. His son's business is overriding all considerations .

Maybe their government doesn’t want the extremes.

"The Guardian, the Washington Post, The Intercept, HuffPost, NBC News, the Toronto Star, the Christian Science Monitor and Breitbart News have reportedly been blocked in China."

Interesting. WaPo and Beitbart?

They are as far on news coverage from each other as the North Pole from the South Pole.

It must have been some factual elements that the Chinese gov doesn't want the populace to know about.

I find their choices of what to block very similar to what I might choose if I wanted to hinder socialist propaganda in US schools.
(The Guardian, Washington Post, The Intercept, NBC News, Facebook, Google, Twitter, HuffPost)
But I wouldn't actively implement such censorship as policy (as currently done by Facebook, Google, Youtube, et al.)