China restricts access to foreign literature

Beijing is restricting access to foreign books and publications as it opens a new front in its battle to limit outside influence on Chinese society . Regulators have given verbal instructions to publishers limiting the number of children’s books written by foreign authors to be published within China each year, according to three people with knowledge of the order.

Alibaba is back on fake goods blacklist

Alibaba is back on a U.S. government naughty list, and the Chinese company is suggesting politics might be to blame. The U.S. Trade Representative said Wednesday that the e-commerce giant’s main consumer site allows the sale of an “unacceptably high” level of fake goods.