What's the Latest on The Economist’s Chinese News App?

First of all, it is still available, unlike other Chinese language products offered by other western publications. “Most of them are blocked,” Charlie Smith [a pseudonym] told us. He is an activist who co-founded Greatfire.org, a site created to highlight state censorship. ProPublica, an investigative journalism website used its data tomonitor 18 international news and social media sites on a daily basis; on average, more than half of those are blocked.