China Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

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

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Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

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

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

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

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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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If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist,…

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The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and…

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I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want…

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There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the…

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Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any…

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For centuries, the Yangtze River - the longest in Asia - has played an important role in China's history, culture, and economy.…

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Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay…

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When U.S. commercial interests press the Chinese government to do a better job of policing Chinese websites for pirated content, a blind…

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

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

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

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

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I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web…

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In China, Vietnam, Russia and several former Soviet states, the dominant social networks are run by local companies whose relationship with the…

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Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more…

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The Chinese government clearly does pay attention to public opinion expressed on the Internet - the extent to which they choose to…

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