http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-blocks-cbc-website-after-story-about-offshore-accounts-1.2507261The websites of several major news outlets, including the CBC, have been blocked in locations within China following yesterday's worldwide exposés on how close relatives of current and former Communist leaders have used secretive offshore corporations that help shroud wealth.
CBC news website blocked in China
At first only this story about offshore holdings by China's elite was blocked, but later the entire CBC News website couldn't be accessed. (CBC)
The CBC's entire website as well as those of the Guardian, Spanish newspaper El Pais and French daily Le Monde were all unavailable in Beijing as of Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET.
The CBC's news story about the exposé, but not its entire website, was being blocked as early as the night before.
The website of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which spearheaded the