China Pledges To Step Up Internet Administration

angry tapir writes "China says it will step up administration of the Internet this year while continuing to build out the country's fiber-optic backbone and expand broadband access for consumers. Internet administration was mentioned in a keynote report on the work of the government to China's parliamentary session. It underlined the importance of culture and noted the need to 'strengthen the development of civic morality' and 'speed up the establishment of moral and behavioral norms that carry forward traditional Chinese virtues.' The pledge comes amid revelations that DDoS attacks against WordPress last week allegedly originated from China."

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American Corporations and Business Leaders in Bed

[ItaloSuave]

What gets me, is how easily American international corporations and businesses - (think "big box" and "dollar stores" among other Importers) bed down with these totalitarian statist "one party rule" Chinese thugs. I cannot think of a single instance, whereby the Chinese Mandarin Rulers in Beijing have "lightened up" a little; not on Tibet; not on Hong Kong; not on Japan; not on Southeast Asia; not on the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Far East; and not on Taiwan, to name just a few concerns. Why we Americans do not treat Mainland China, like Fidel Castro's Cuba, or the Ayatollah's Iran, is beyond my ability to comprehend the "realpolitik" of our foreign policy and MBA business smarts. They have brand new Buick factories; we have Flint Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and now, Madison, Wisconsin. When will the U.S. Dollar, and American political, financial, and business leaders "smarten up"? I hope it's not too late, when they do.