The Chinese police, citing newly enacted restrictions on journalists, has moved to forcefully prevent foreign reporters from covering public protests that have been largely nonexistent, establishing “no reporting” zones in Shanghai and Beijing and, in one case, beating a videographer and injuring two other reporters. "The police provided reasonable guidance, and the journalists should understand and cooperate," the spokeswoman said at a regular news conference. "If both sides take this attitude, we can minimize the occurrence of such incidents."
State security forces have also placed scores of dissidents and rights advocates under surveillance in recent days and tightened censorship to prevent word of the so-called Jasmine rallies from spreading on the Internet or via micro-blogs. Officials have informed a number of reporters and photographers that one of the capital’s main shopping districts, Wangfujing, and People’s Park in the heart of Shanghai are either off limits or require a special permit for the taking of photographs and the conducting of interviews. As you can see, the Chinese government started to block the news again, and stopped people from reporting on protests again. Police from government just put the protests down. Although China is not a capitalist nation, it has responsibility to let world know what is going on within China, because people are more and more pay attention to China right now. In my opinion, China has to stop reporting on protests; let the world understand China more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/asia/02china.html?_r=1&ref=asia
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