WESTERN CYBER INFORMATION WAR IS ON

The cyber information warfare is on again between America and China.

In protest against alleged Western media bias in their coverage of last month's riots in Lhasa, a Chinese website was launched to appeal to people around the world to "sign up" for its protest. It is reported that CNN was the target for many people's comments.

The appeal is : "Violent crimes of beating, smashing, looting and arson broke out in Lhasa in early March, but Western media organizations such as CNN and BBC have churned out untrue and distorted reports of the event. Please sign your name here to lodge your strong protest."

The website can be accessed via news portal Sina.com, appeared on Friday, and at press time had garnered more than 1.14 million signatures, most of which came from people on the mainland.

As of midday on Friday, about 11 percent of the signatures were from Beijing, 8 percent were from Guangdong and 7 percent were from Jiangxi, the Xinhua News Agency said.

Of those sent from overseas, 20 percent were from the United States.