US tweaks China over web-erasing diplomat's name

The US is tweaking China for its online blocking of the American ambassador's name. Searches for Ambassador Jon Huntsman's name in Chinese on a popular microblogging site called Sina Weibo were met with a message Friday that said results were unavailable due to unspecified ``laws, regulations and policies.'
Huntsman, a Republican, is leaving his post and is seen as a potential White House contender in 2012. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a Twitter posting Saturday that ``it is remarkable' that even before Huntsman leaves Beijing, ``China has made him disappear from the Internet.'
China apparently widened its Internet policing after online calls for protests like those that have swept the Middle East.