China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communications

My blog is on a March 21st New York Times article about China disrupting Gmail services. The only intrinsic evidence was as follows;

"Google began receiving complaints from Gmail users and its own employees in China about a month ago, around the time anonymous Internet posts urged people unhappy with the government to gather every Sunday. Some Gmail users found their service disconnected when they tried to send or save messages."

The article then uses intrinsic evidence and examples of previous censorship to show that China's government likes to control its people. One of the more interesting facts in this article is that one of the spokespersons from China was quoted in saying that Google, Facebook and Twitter were instruments of the U.S government to cause disorder and chaos. To me, this seems outlandish. After all, American's are more exposed to those sites than other countries. It's comforting that China still respects the U.S enough to think of us as capable of such a diabolical plan.