WTO: China violates int'l trade law by limiting media imports
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 22 December 2009
The World Trade Organization has ruled that China's practice of funneling media imports to state-owned companies-which facilitates the country's long tradition of censorship-violates international trade laws.
The WTO has given China one year to get its act together and bring its import policies in line with international trade laws. If not, the US can ask the WTO to bring commercial sanctions against China.
It's kind of sad to see that no country cares about all the censorship in China (not to mention quite a few try to take them as an example and want to implement similar technology) unless it affects the flow of money.