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Policemen are confronted by demonstrators on a street during a protest in Hong Kong today
GOOGLE has blocked hundreds of Chinese YouTube accounts critical of protests in Hong Kong, following similar actions from Twitter and Facebook last week.
Security spokesman for the web giants, Shane Huntley, confirmed that Google has disabled 210 channels on YouTube last week.
The tech firm accused them of behaving in “a co-ordinated manner while uploading videos relating to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.”
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
JAMES NALTON takes a look at the German league’s move to grow its audience in Britain, and around the future of football on TV in general
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE