Contesting Cyberspace in China by Rongbin Han

Author:Rongbin Han
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POL054000, Political Science/World/Asian, POL065000, Political Science/Political Process/Media & Internet
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

Recently, in one of its northern cities, a power has been speeding up construction of an aircraft carrier, which has symbolic significance.

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However, under the glossy surface of being an Olympic Games host and aircraft carrier owner is a different picture—at the same time the carrier is being built, a growing number of “mass incidents” [quntixing shijian, 群体性事件, referring to public protests and other forms of collective dissent] are imposing huge pressure on the country’s stability maintenance apparatus. They have introduced strict control over the Internet, manipulated public opinion, deployed legions of police to disperse assemblies, and are ready to arrest netizens spreading “inharmonious” information.

Canada’s Vancouver Sun commented on [August] 10 that the society is “sick.” French commentator Agnes Poirier even told the BBC that this country remained one of the most “unequal societies” [in Europe].

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