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The Rising Tide: China’s Surging Internet Growth and the Resulting Policy Repercussions

Though the emerging superpower contender was relatively late to embrace the Internet phenomenon, a tremendous amount of web development has occurred in recent years. Despite the potential benefit of the Internet to its billion-plus denizens, the Chinese Communist Party has created one of the world’s foremost web sentry systems – the Golden Shield Project.

February 14, 2010 - By Mike Ma - Features, National Focus: China, Sociology