Offshore access curbed for website of Chinese province facing Taiwan

Some offshore users of an official Chinese website providing economic and demographic data on Fujian province across from Taiwan say their access has been restricted, and Beijing said “emergency measures” had been taken to deal with a cyberattack.

More than half-a-dozen users with knowledge of the matter said some users outside the mainland have found themselves unable to access the website within the purview of Fujian’s statistics bureau.

One researcher based in Singapore said he started encountering the curbs in March, while others said they had become aware of them more recently.