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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.

— Zhang Ziyi

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Vint Cerf

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.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

One thing is very clear from the chatter I see on Chinese blogs, and also from just what people in China tell me, is that Google is much more popular among China's Internet users than the United States.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

— Lu Wei

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

— Tom Lantos

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Rebecca MacKinnon

✗Opposing Perspectives

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

— Li Yuanchao

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

— Rebecca MacKinnon