[jacquesm]

The more these things happen the more you should see it as panic in the eyes of the current wielders of significant power in China. Controlling access to information like this is fundamentally incompatible with being a nation that trades with all of the world. Trade requires communication and (forgive the 'Chinese Math') a fraction of the Chinese population is in daily contact with the rest of the world.

It's a matter of time, really. How much I have no idea, they are doing what they can to abuse technology to fight this rearguard action, and what the fall-out will be like I have no idea about either, other than that it probably won't be pretty and that it will upset lots of applecarts, made in China and elsewhere.