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p2pnet news | Freedom:- Foreigners shouldn’t use “internet issues” to meddle in China’s “internal affairs,” warns Cai Mingzhao (right), a vice minister at the Chinese state council information office.
His statement came during a UK-China roundtable held at Reuters’ offices in Canary Wharf, says the Guardian, going on:
“Mingzhao’s keynote speech mixed encouraging comment on making the ‘bridge increasingly wide’ between China’s internet sector and foreign companies and a careful articulation of the country’s strong stance on content control,” says the story.
Misunderstandings over the country’s Net procedures have arisen for reasons including a “lack of knowledge” of Chinese government policies by foreign companies or cultural differences, Mingzhao added, it states.
Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning, each jailed for ten years after Yahoo handed Chinese authorities and records which led to the men’s original imprisonment, will no doubt be interested to learn that.
“[We are] willing to draw useful lessons from other countries to improve ways of building and regulating the internet,” the Guardian has him saying, adding a “strong word of caution,” to wit, “Any attempt to use internet issues to interfere in China’s internal affairs is definitely opposed”.
He added that there was no question that the Chinese government recognised the importance of the internet but that development had to go hand-in-hand with traditional cultural values such as harmony, honesty, self-discipline and good will.
Mingzhao is an ex-vice-president of the state run Xinhua News Agency.
The Net is one of the principal means by which foreigners are learning about the tragedies enacted in Tibet as Chinese authorities try to quell free speech.
Also See:
Guardian - China sidesteps internet criticism, March 20, 2008
jailed for ten years - Help Shi Tao, Wang Xiaoning, Yahoo asks US, February 25, 2008
tragedies enacted in Tibet - ‘Smash Tibet independence forces’: China, March 22, 2008
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March 25th, 2008 at 7:12 am
“He added that there was no question that the Chinese government recognised the importance of the internet but that development had to go hand-in-hand with traditional cultural values such as harmony, honesty, self-discipline and good will.”
Is that the same harmony, honesty, self-discipline and good will that allows the Chinese government to look the other way and even encourage the arrest, torture and murder of people who practice the Falun Gong religion?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong
March 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
We are not messing up with China or the chinese people. We are messing up with the bag of shit in power in China such as this piece of human garbage of Cai Mingzhao.
These guys are criminal and should be treated as such!
March 25th, 2008 at 10:43 am
This raises an interesting question.
How can I help ‘interfere’ in China’s human rights abuses via the internet.
Seriously, does anyone have suggestions?