China Blog - Social networking in Beijing

In the wake of Google, Inc.’s recent experience in China it’s been interesting to do my own observation of technological liberties available in China.  Ours represents a relatively high-level cultural and trade delegation.  We’re staying in a fairly modern, Western style hotel in Beijing, China’s second largest city.  However, my experience is that some of the popular social networking sites in America, including Facebook and Twitter, are not available.  You can type in the URL, but there's never a connection to the site. Fortunately there seems full access to www.laul.org and www.nul.org.  We’ll have to make that work for us during our stay.