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Don't like our rules? Then leave: China newspaper to western institutions

News about the decision by CUP set off a torrent of criticism

The editorial appeared after news that CUP had blocked access on its site in China
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The censorship in China of hundreds of academic papers from a prominent journal will have little impact because readership is so small, but if Western institutions don't like the way things are done in China they can leave, the state-run Global Times newspaper said in an editorial on Monday.

The editorial appeared after news that Cambridge University Press (CUP) had blocked access on its site in China to a list of some 300 papers and book reviews from the China Quarterly that the Chinese government had asked to be removed.

CUP said it complied so that the larger body of