Hundred of journalists at the Southern Weekly paper, a state-owned newspaper based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, are on a rare protest against the Communist Party interfering in editorial independence. The protest in the southern city came after censors on Thursday blocked a New Year article in the popular liberal newspaper which called for the realisation of a "dream of constitutionalism in China" to protect rights. The party memo however accused “foreign forces” for inciting the protests.