Re: Sinodefense.com cited on newspaper
AFAIK SDF can be accessed from mainland china. This has always been high priority for the whole team and in the very early days of this new forum (defencetalks co-operation) we agreed with Dongfeng that no such posting would be allwed that could harm the SDF accesability in mainland. Thats one of the reasons why we don't allow any political discussion.
We have had few posters from china but it isen't any "great firewall" or other sensorship that makes those posters a rarety. Its far more simple barrier: the language barrier. We are an international forum but due the lack of truly unbiased international language, we are forced to use the only availble language that is roughly speaken around the world, english. This naturally means that the forum is more visible in the areas where english language is predominant, mainly in the "west".
Correct me if i'm wrong but from what I've gathered, english language is not so well spread among the vast majority of the chinese people and that alone basicly narrows the possiple members to rather low numbers.
But to make it very clear to all our members and exspecially to other spectators, we are not linked to any governmental organisations in any country. The owners of this forum, Webmaster and Dongfeng are private indivuduals which both lives in different countries. Mister Dongfeng who also owns the mainsite sinodefence.com runs the site in his freetime and so does everyone else of the moderation/administration team. We are just bunch of military enthusiast who have set a forum to discuss with our interest with eahc others and with anyone that wishes to join us.