For couple of days back already I have noticed, that it is almost impossible to use foreign websites whereas the chinese websites are very fast to open. This is very frustrating because you understand the problem is not connected with your own devices or internet provider, but is something bigger.

Many people can remember the time when current Communist Party leadership change took place. It was almost impossible to use internet that time. Also emails such as Gmail could not be logged in for some time. I remember also the time, when the Diaoyu Island dispute was very hot, so it had the same effect on the internet. Especially foreign pages take very long time to open, and even forein versions of Google are blocked.

As for today, when I notice the internet becoming extremy slow, I tend to open a Chinese newspaper and look for the reasons. It seems like the reasons are quite plentiful at the moment. On the menu there is the South China Sea issue having some new turns with Philippines and Vietnamese and a news about Sino-US cyber attacks returning on the political agenda.

I still don't understand why Chinese are restricting the access to foreign internet pages when having some international troubles. I can understand restricting people's access for foreign sources that could be harmful for the government, but restricting all internet traffic? Wouldn't there be a more refined way to do that?

I mean, at the moment I cannot use google to search anything at all, not to speak any internet page that doesn't have .cn in the end. Even Spotify slowed down and wouldn't play music anymore

Nice that the weather is sunny and the pollution levels are good. Maybe a walk outside would help to get rid of the anxiety this kind of control causes.