p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- “Reform” and “Opening Up” comprise the principal buzzword and buzz-phrase in a China View post on, well, reform and opening up.

“Reform and opening-up is a natural choice for China to handle challenges triggered by the world financial crisis, and sustain its economic miracle, a Chinese scholar said on Wednesday,” according to the storyk which goes on:

“Chi Fulin, the executive director of the China (Hainan) Reform and Development Research Institute, along with other members of Chinese society, and newspapers have voiced their support for extending reform and opening up, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the country’s reform and opening-up.

“The ‘People’s Daily’, a mouthpiece newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), carried a bylined article on its front page on Wednesday ‘A historic chance awaits us’. It stressed ‘the time demands that we propel reform and opening-up’.”

“It is impossible to reach our aim in one move,” says the article, “we need to consider how to push forward the great endeavour of reform and opening-up.”

But, “Chinese government officials have defended their decision to block several foreign news websites, including the BBC, as the country moves away from its pledge for uncensored internet access during the Beijing Olympics,” reports The Guardian, going on

The BBC, Voice of America, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao News and Asiaweek have all had their websites blocked in China since early December. Restrictions had previously been lifted in August, when foreign journalists demanded full access during the Olympics.

China’s foreign ministry said today that it was within its rights to block sites that showed content illegal under the country’s law. A foreign ministry spokesman, Liu Jianchao, said the Chinese government “could not deny” that it had issues with some sites.

“For instance, if a website refers to ‘two Chinas’ or refers to mainland China and Taiwan as two independent regions, we believe that violates China’s anti-secession law, as well as other laws,” Liu added.

“We hope that the relevant websites can comply with China’s concerns and not do things contrary to Chinese law. This will help establish good co-operation between China and the relevant countries, as well as China and the relevant websites.”

Says China View, “Deepening reform and opening-up has become one key point for China to maintain economic growth, and also one of the five key points for next year’s economic work.”

China View -  30 years on, Chinese still crave for reform, opening up, December 17, 2008

---

Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It`s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php

---

Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at 1:20 pm and is filed under P2P, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

HOME

Viewed 3199 times