China Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

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Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

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If you want to have traction in China, you have to be in China.

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Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

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Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

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Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

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Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and…

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Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn.

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The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.

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One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

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There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

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The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is…

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As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the…

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If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and…

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Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that…

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In the wake of the Internet getting shut down in Egypt - something that also happened in Xinjiang - I know that…

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People in China have a range of strong views about how children should be protected when they go online and whether the…

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In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted…

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If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely…

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While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused…

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Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of Chinese chatrooms - and…

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Thanks to the Internet in general and social media in particular, the Chinese people now have a mechanism to hold authorities accountable…

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A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security'…

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I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine…

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The trend in China is toward tighter and tighter control. They are basically improving their censorship mechanisms.

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China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.

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A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.

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There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just…

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The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

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There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

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Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

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Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

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Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

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There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

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One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be…

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China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

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Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese…

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Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not…

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If China can't even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a…

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One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell…

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