UK Publisher Rejected Request to Block Academic Articles in China

UK Publisher Rejected Request to Block Academic Articles in China
This photo taken on August 23, 2017 shows people at the Cambridge University Press stand at the Beijing International Book Fair in Beijing. GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images
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LONDON/BEIJING—Britain’s Cambridge University Press has rejected a request from its Chinese state-owned importer to block online access in China to scholarly articles from the American Political Science Review.

“A request was indeed made by the Chinese importer, but was not acted upon by Cambridge University Press, so no content was blocked,” a spokeswoman for CUP said in an emailed statement.