Marc van der Chijs

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• Commented on Tweet in China, GFW be damned!
  Note that the basic service of Witopia changed a few months ago. With their new USD 39.99 package you cannot watch YouTube anymore in China (if you paid last year you can still use it), and according to one tweet...
• Commented on Solar eclipse darkening Shanghai in two months: July 22
  The eclipse is on July 22, not June 22, which is in 2 months. Better change the title of our post....
• Commented on Super fast internet coming to Shanghai this year
  Unfortunately the higher internet speed likely won't have an impact on YouTube or any other foreign-hosted sites. Only Chinese sites will load more quickly, all the others data will still have to go through the Great Firewall bottleneck....
• Commented on Today's Links: Pig organ contamination, signs of the post-boom, official visits, and an interesting resignation
  Just wondering what #CDE threatened Shanghaiist with, that this blog still does not dare to use his full name even after he resigned all his positions in China....
• Commented on Video: U.S. cyclists arrive in Beijing wearing masks
  If US athletes want to make themselves look like fools they have the right to do that of course. They even wore their masks on the plane? What a joke. And if they perform badly they'll probably blame it on...