UPDATE: China tightens media controls amid protest calls
For the second Sunday, peaceful protesters are taking place in Shanghai, one of China's more upscale cities, similar to the movements taking place in the Middle East.
Thursday the professional networking site LinkedIn was blocked in China when the forum "Jasmine Voice" had three posts alluding to these sorts of events.
Near Shanghai's People's Square, uniformed police blew whistles nonstop and shouted at people to keep moving, though about 200 people - a combination of onlookers and quiet sympathizers who formed a larger crowd than a week ago - braved the shrill noise. In Beijing, trucks normally used to water the streets drove repeatedly up the busy commercial shopping district spraying water and keeping crowds pressed to the edges.
Foreign journalists met with tighter police controls. In Shanghai, authorities called foreign reporters Sunday indirectly warning them to stay away from the protest sites, while police in Beijing followed some reporters and blocked those with cameras from entering the Wangfujing shopping street where protests were called. Plainclothes police struck a Bloomberg News television reporter, who was then taken away for questioning.
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