China steps up internet restrictions during parliamentary session. Access to foreign websites and VPNs are all the more complicated during the Chinese parliamentary session, a sensitive date when Beijing receives the country's political elite.
Many sites (Google, Youtube, etc.), applications and foreign social networks (X, Instagram, Facebook, etc.) are therefore inaccessible without IT tools to circumvent censorship (VPN). Any keyword ( hashtag ) about the annual session of the Chinese Parliament is also blocked on the social network Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of X.