Current Affairs - International - Discussion

China on May 15, 2019, blocked all the language editions of the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) earlier reported that the country began the process of blocking language editions of Wikipedia in April 2019. Though China blocked most of the editions of Wikipedia along with the Chinese language version in 2015, some of them were still accessible. The block comes at a time when Chinese authorities under the Chinese President Xi Jinping are placing controls on internet usage and are trying hard to clean out ‘Great Firewall’ proxy tools such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) software.