China blocks Google’s Gmail

China has blocked the last remaining way to access Google’s popular e-mail service, experts said on Monday, December 29, as authorities work to establish “Internet sovereignty” by controlling what enters the country via the web. Gmail, the world’s biggest e-mail service, has been largely inaccessible from within China since the run-up to the 25th anniversary in June of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. The United States, while careful not to accuse Beijing directly, said it was aware of reports that Gmail had been blocked and that it was “concerned by efforts in China to undermine freedom of expression.”

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