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A Google China logo of in front of its headquarters in Beijing. The search engine’s comprehensiveness is an edge against a new, well-financed competitor, Bing from Microsoft. Reuters
Posted Monday, January 25 2010 at 19:31
Dangerous separatist
Washington has also unveiled arms sales to Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing regards as a renegade province. The State Council Information Office is the cabinet arm of China’s propaganda apparatus, which is steered by the Communist Party, and is one of several agencies behind Internet policy.
The latest comments from China made no direct mention of Google or Clinton.
They appeared intended to amplify the government’s case that its Internet controls are for it to decide, and expressing non-violent views online can be a crime in China.
China has jailed dissidents and advocates of self-rule in Tibet who have used the Internet to challenge Communist Party policies and one-party rule.
Late last year the country’s most prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo, was jailed for 11 years on charges of “inciting subversion”, largely through essays he published on overseas Internet sites. On Sunday, the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, accused the United States of exploiting social media, such as Twitter and YouTube, to foment unrest in Iran.
-New York Times Syndicate. Additional reporting by Reuters
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