ASSESSMENTS
China: Internet Access and Control
Feb 12, 2008 | 10:17 GMT
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Summary
China’s Ministry of Information Industry plans to connect more than 95 percent of the country's villages to the Internet via broadband by the end of 2008, the Shanghai Daily reported Feb. 11. The Internet poses a key threat to Beijing's grip on social stability — a channel through which people can be mobilized into mass movements. Beijing, therefore, wants to exert control over Internet access, even as it expands that access.
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