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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

If China can't even given LinkedIn enough breathing room to operate in China, that would be a very unfortunate signal for a government to send its professionals about its priorities.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists.

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.