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Old Jul 4, 2014 | 5:24 am
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Originally Posted by YuropFlyer
WeChat is better anyway. #1 app in P.R. China and chinese speaking areas (like Singapore)

I have never heard about this "LINE" thing before - apparently some japanese app, so it doesn't surprise me it's blocked within China. Maybe a reaction on japanese recent aggression?
For what it's worth, I just flew into Shanghai from Seoul today and yesterday the Korean news was reporting that line would be blocked for approximately two days as part of the security around Xi's visit to Korea. Along with that several Korean social media sites would be temporarily blocked as well. Not real clear reason given, however.
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