From the Useless Tree blog:
As recent cases of internet censorship and press closures remind us, the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) works hard to control the flow of information into and out of the country. It is failing, however. More messages, ideas and images are crossing the borders in both directions than ever before. Harried Chinese censors cannot keep up with the volume and speed of communications, which are gradually forcing the government to reveal more about itself than it has in the past.
Although it tries to obscure media of various sorts, the Chinese government is gradually becoming more transparent. [Full text]