China's Cyber-Strategy
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2001Published in: Foreign Affairs, v. 80 no. 2, Mar./Apr. 2001, p. 118-133
The Chinese Communist Party is simultaneously fostering the growth of the Internet and weaving a web of regulations to limit network content and use. But regulations cannot entirely block Internet communication, and the state's previously solid control over information is shifting to the citizens. If a future economic or political crisis spurs a challenge to party rule, this shift in information control may decide the outcome.
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- Copyright: Council on Foreign Relations
- Availability: Non-RAND
- Year: 2001
- Pages: 7
- Document Number: EP-200103-11
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