[ WikiLeaks: China’s Propaganda Chief Behind Google Attack ]
When WikiLeaks released Nov. 29 classified documents involving sensitive issues in China, the communist regime’s Central Propaganda Department (CPD) ordered: “No news reports about the WikiLeaks.”Meanwhile, a number of websites with names similar to WikiLeaks are also being blocked, apparently as insurance that no Web site that includes “Wiki” in the name gets through, including the popular Wikipedia.
WikiLeaks released more than 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables on the 29th. The organization’s editor-in-chief, Australian-born Julian Assange dubbed this release, “Cablegate.”
These recent documents also reveal some embarrassing relations: China’s association with the arms trade between North Korea and Iran, China’s Politburo member(s) ordering the intrusion into Google’s computer systems, and China’s wariness (“scared to death”) over a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
According to The Telegraph, “The files contain 3,297 cables from [U.S. embassy in] Beijing, 555 from Shanghai, 662 from Guangzhou, 260 from Chengdu 260, 120 from Shenyang, 120 and 950 from Hong Kong, and Beijing will be watching anxiously to see what they contain.”
Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that, previously, China commended WikiLeaks for publishing nearly 400,000 documents in October of classified information about the Iraq War. QQ.com, the largest web portal in China, published an article about these documents that was sent to its over 100 million users. The incident was acclaimed by Chinese netizens as the highest level news publication in China.
