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December 5, 2007|
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Cai's speech "invoked Hu’s policy of media strengthening, or zuoqiang zuoda (做强做大), which calls for the creation of integrated media groups that are at once commercially powerful and mindful of party propaganda discipline."
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"Block access to the Web2.0 tools hosted outside of China and you frustrate activists, who would like to use those tools, but you don’t antagonize the average user, who is probably better served by tools written in Chinese for a Chinese audience."
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“...President Hu Jintao has promised to create a "harmonious society." This will not be helped by security officials harassing a growing NGO community that embraces many of the country's most thoughtful, able, and caring citizens.“
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“The Communist Party is basically a gigantic Skull and Bones. It is one of the social networks its members use to build wealth together.“
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"The result of the weekend election is a fillip to the democratic cause after democratic parties suffered one of their worst defeats at the hands of pro-Beijing parties in local council elections two weeks ago."
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"Inside China...some of the smartest thinkers about the Internet believe the biggest hurdle to free speech in China isn't technical, it's social."
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