Reporters Without Borders' website now in Mandarin, bringing trustworthy news on press freedom to over one billion Chinese speakers
Reporters Without Borders' website now in Mandarin, bringing trustworthy news on press freedom to over one billion Chinese speakers
The launch of RSF.org in Mandarin is all the more crucial as access to independent information continues to shrink for Chinese-speaking audiences. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the regime has reinforced its censorship apparatus — symbolised by the "Great Firewall" — and ramped up efforts to spread propaganda globally. As a result, China now ranks near the bottom of the 2025 RSF World Press Freedom Index, placing 178th out of 180 countries and territories. With at least 123 journalists and media workers currently imprisoned, China remains the world’s largest jailer of media professionals.
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With the addition of both simplified and traditional Mandarin, the RSF website is now available in an increasing number of languages for a global audience. The NGO also publishes regional content in Korean, Japanese, Mongolian, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Internationally, RSF operates through 7 bureaus, 6 sections, and a network of 160 correspondents in over 140 countries.
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Good work.
I suppose that for those 1.4bn people inside China to access it, they also need to use a mirror site?
So I'm curious, how many people find such mirror sites, and why don't the firewall managers just block those urls (the ips may be big cloud services, but the urls are not) as fast as the list evolves (maybe they track who uses them)? Could a decentralised peer-to-peer network scale more robustly ?