Staying in touch

Last week, there was a mini-panic among some foreign residents of China about internet access. They interpreted a communication in the middle of last year as indicating that all VPN access to the great wide world would be cut this month. Our view was always that that would not happen, and, touch wood, it hasn't. What has happened, it seems, is a curtailment of domestic VPN vendors and outlets, and the establishment of a requirement on companies to register their corporate VPN networks with the authorities.