The Chinese Communist Party’s clumsy handling of censorship and freedom of expression will negatively impact both its strategic relationships abroad and its ability to juggle domestic political issues.
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.