China, with the most Internet users of any country in the world, has
issued its first government whitepaper declaring an overall Internet strategy--one that advocates
Internet growth while implicitly defending censorship policies amid
global concern over online repression and China-based cyber espionage.
"I think this whitepaper is a statement that the Chinese Communist Party intends to stay in power, and also intends to expand Internet access, and be on the cutting edge of Internet innovation, and that there isn't any contradiction in any of those things," says Rebecca MacKinnon, a China Internet expert who is a visiting fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy.
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Author: David Talbot
