Internet Filtering in China in 2004 2005 

e. Independence Movements 

Figure 14   Independence Movement Google Results 

** We tested multiple translations of this term, with substantially similar results. 

Sites on these topics were accessible more often than sites in other categories, though testers were 

not able to reach the majority of Chinese language sites concerning the Dalai Lama and Xinjiang 

independence.

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  A relatively small percentage of Chinese language sites listed for searches for  Tibet  

and  Taiwan  were inaccessible; the number rose significantly when the search query included the term 

 independence.   Chinese language sites related to Tibet were slightly less accessible than sites discussing 

Taiwan; this gap was more pronounced for English language search results.

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 See generally Howard W. French, China Moves Toward Another West: Central Asia, N.Y. Times, Mar. 28, 2004, 

at 1 (describing China's concerns about the  threat of separatism by the region s Uighur minority, whose Turkik 

language and Islamic faith draw them toward kinsmen in Kazakhstan and other former Soviet republics of the 

region ); see also You Ji, China's post 9/11 terrorism strategy, Ass'n for Asian Research, May 11, 2004, at 

http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2047.html. 

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