China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi clarified China’s stance on Internet management and emphasized Internet is open and active in China when meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a spokesman of China’s Foreign Ministry said Friday.
For China Beat, Geremie R. Barmé puts Hillary Clinton’s recent remarks about Internet freedom in a historical context:
Hillary Clinton’s recent speech on freedom of information and the Internet is a clear enunciation of the long-term rhetoric…
Traveling in Europe this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pressuring China to endorse sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, the New York Times reports:
With Russia increasingly frustrated by Iran’s recalcitrance, China has emerg…
(ChinaPost.com.tw) – Business groups told United States (U.S.) Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and other top U.S. officials on Tuesday they were “increasingly alarmed” by China’s moves to keep out foreign high-tech companies and urged a firm r…
While many netizens have expressed their outrage at the recent anti-vulgarity campaign, tightening controls over online gaming, and the Great Firewall in general, People’s Daily published an open letter to Hillary Clinton’s recent speech on…
Iran election unrest an example of US ‘naked political scheming’ behind free speech facade, says Communist party editorialThe United States used “online warfare” to stir up unrest in Iran after last year’s elections, the Chinese Communist party newspaper claimed today, hitting back at Hillary Clinton’s speech last week about internet freedom.An editorial in the People’s [...]
Hillary Clinton’s speech on internet freedom was welcome. But don’t pretend China and the US have shared valuesFor a western audience, Hillary Clinton’s speech about internet freedom and the need to counter hacking was entirely welcome. For China, it amounted to “information imperialism”.For the west, the fact that access to sensitive links from websites in [...]
The Chinese government has responded quickly and strongly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech on Internet freedom yesterday. From Information Week:
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu called remarks Thursday by U.S. Secretary…
As global connectivity increases, we must make sure the internet is used to increase, not undermine, human progressThe spread of information networks is forming a new nervous system for our planet. When something happens in Haiti or Hunan, the rest of us learn about it in real time – from real people. And we can [...]
Hillary Clinton’s call for Beijing to investigate Google cyber-attack claims could damage bilateral relations, China warnsUS calls for greater internet freedom could damage bilateral ties, China warned today as it hit back at Hillary Clinton’s critical speech.The US secretary of state yesterday portrayed tackling censorship as a new priority for American foreign policy and called [...]