This is amazing for me to find out that Chinese government unblocks the two most important Newspaper websites in Taiwan. I have stayed in China for many years and, for sure, have never been able to read any news from Taiwan online website. In shanghai, it doesn't bother me, because I can read China Times, one of the biggest daily newspaper in Taiwan, in some cafe chain stores, which are operated by Taiwanese. But when I moved to Beijing, I can no longer find any Taiwanese Newspaper in any restaurants here. I guess this is caused by one of the obvious differences between Shanghai and Beijing, the personality of Beijing which is all about politics and culture, unlike that of Shanghai which is all about business and fashion.
Although I don't really care the control of news access, I already develop a kind of habit to visit SINA.com, the portal website boasting itself the biggest online news website. However, reading news on Sina.com is very frustrating and aggravating because of many pop-up advertisements. Now that I learn I can visit the United Daily News (http://udn.com/NEWS/), I don't have to endure the AD interruption in SINA.com. It is also said that China Times (news.chinatimes.com), another influential daily newspaper website, can be accessed in the near future.
On the one hand, I am glad that the Chinese government lifted these bans, manifesting that Chinese government becomes more confident to face the challenge of the diverse opinions and liberal thoughts from Taiwan press media. On the other hand, I am worried that Taiwan government is moving toward an enclosed policy, which might prevent the public from real information of fast changing China, concern only about the domestic issues and neglect the inevitable trend of globalization.
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