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It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.

The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online.

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.