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Prof Spence does not ignore the risks, but sees more grounds for optimism. He points to the ballooning number of university graduates, the emergence of grassroots civil groups, and the vast improvement in the education levels of top leaders as evidence that change will have to come. "The whole idea of representation is being explored. Remember China had a hard time with representative government, which fell apart under the warlord era [in 1915]. "China is backtracking into the past, looking for ways of making changes. We could wish they changed much faster, but we should be glad they are changing at the speed they are," he says. Hear Professor Jonathan Spence deliver the 2008 Reith lectures: BBC Radio 4, Tuesdays from 3 June, 0900BST

但是不可否认，旧金山海滨道上也有很多X山狮子旗和anti-china标语。“anti-china”人士各式各样：有反政府、anti-china、反布什、反对一切的美国嬉皮士，当我请他们解释说明他们的anti-china标语时，得到的是无语和一脸的不可一世；有不满我国政府与缅甸、苏丹政府关系的人 权义士，出发点可以赞同，但对事实所知不多；当然还有各类的Z 独人士。

当我们礼貌友好的接近一些xz人时，他们还是很认真、朴实的与我们交谈（就像小时候课本中学到的少数民族一样）。他们大部分在新中国的xz长大，会说汉语，有汉族朋友，也把我们当作同胞，有些也很兴奋得谈到台湾回归、中国统一强大。他们谈到的一些问题与不满，也是在国内生活中大家遇到的。通货膨胀，贫 富差 距拉大，地方官员的腐败，大学扩招后找工作的困难。发达地区的国人尚有时为此苦恼，在全球一体化、全国小一体化的今天，贫穷落后Z人更是负担沉重，生活艰难，由此而生的民族情绪也可以理解。另一印象深刻的话题是dl，所有交谈的Z人都对其热爱、崇拜。长大成为无神论者的我们大概无法理解那种对宗教领袖/老师的崇拜。

这一代Z人看到的是自治区的社会问题和宗教问题。也许我们应该向前看，努力增进与少数民族的友谊，切实提高他们的生活水平。放下历史的包袱，不再指着他们的鼻子、告诉他们曾经是奴隶。

Kai-Fu Lee, co-president for Google Greater China told us there will be no GMail in the foreseeable future, because Google would be unable to protect user data from the government.

Hillary Clinton has come under fire for her attitude to China's human rights record after it emerged that a dozen dissidents were placed under house arrest during her trip.

Shenyang, literally meaning “the city to the north of Shen River” and capital of the Liaoning province, is touting itself as China’s “next tourist destination.” But whether you are visiting the ancient pagodas of Old City or the official “High-tech Industrial Development Zone” the tourist brochures won’t mention the city’s male and female sex workers who mostly come from poor rural communities in search of talked-up urban opportunities. In partnership with the Ai Zhi Yuan Zhu Center for Health and Education documentary filmmaker Wei Zhang will train male and female sex workers who use the AZYZ center how to maintain a blog and upload short video documentaries to share their experiences, opinions, and troubles in order to promote more understanding of the region’s sex worker population.

Why does a society that, like America, impresses most people who spend time here project such a poor image and scare people as much as it attracts them? Why do China’s leaders, who survive partly by listening to their own people, develop such tin ears when dealing with the outside world?

Of course, most official voices of China now have the opposite effect. Their minor, provable lies—the sky is blue, no one wants to protest—inevitably build mistrust of larger claims that are closer to being true. And those are the claims the government most wants the world to listen to: that the country is moving forward and is less repressive and more open than official actions and explanations (or lack of them) make China seem. Many Chinese who have seen the world are very canny about it, and have just the skills government spokesmen lack—for instance, understanding the root of foreign concerns and addressing them not with special pleading (“This is China…”) but on their own terms. Worldly Chinese demonstrate this every day in the businesses, universities, and nongovernmental organizations where they generally work. But the closer Chinese officials are to centers of political power, the less they know what they don’t know about the world.

So apparently the controversies in international media this summer over China and the Olympics came as a bit of a shock to the Chinese people. While the government's retained tight control over its own media, it's been less able to harmonize those pesky news outlets abroad. Not one to take perceived insults to its national image lying down, Beijing is now throwing RMB 45 billion into targeting global audiences.

Manuela Parrino is a 40-year-old Italian who has lived in Beijing for the last 41/2 years with her husband, an Italian television correspondent, and their son, Jacopo. "I was kind of fed up with all the visiting journalists talking negatively about China. I was at the press conference where they announced the new protest areas, and I thought, 'OK, let's give this a try.' "

The spy tactics include copying information contained in laptop computers at airport checkpoints or hotel rooms, wirelessly inserting spyware on BlackBerry devices, and a new technique dubbed "slurping" that uses Bluetooth technology to steal data from electronic devices. In addition to cybersecurity threats in other countries, "so many people are going to the Olympics and are going to get electronically undressed," said Joel Brenner, the government's top counterintelligence officer. He tells of one computer-security expert who powered up a new Treo hand-held computer when his plane landed in China. By the time he got to his hotel, a handful of software programs had been wirelessly inserted.

This chart shows recent changes in the Chinese Internet Censorship Index (CICI) value. Values less than 100% shows that sites are being blocked in China (but not outside of China). Lower values indicate more censorship — we're aiming to get China 100% censorship-free!

。那么目前世界最大的域名注册商Godaddy在中国被封，最有可能的解释就是CNNIC通过屏蔽Godaddy, 不想让除运动员本身之外的任何中国人注册和持有奥林匹克金牌获得者域名。虽然懂点电脑的人清楚通过国外的代理能暂时绕过封锁，但是当在中国不能访问Godaddy并通过其注册奥运运动员相关域名时，CNNIC保护域名就更加的容易了。

去年刚刚出国就经历了中国毒玩具、毒宠物饲料的事件，我还记忆犹新，本来玩具店里大多数都是Made in China, 现在恐怕已经没有一个是made in China了。 一件让我很尴尬的事情，是一个老外和我聊天问了我一个问题 — 那些生产有毒玩具的人们是否没有一个人知情？否则为什么没有人举报？直到东窗事发，身败名裂？ 我竟然很难回答这个问题，老外这么问，固然是他对中国不够了解，但我难回答，一方面因为我的确不知道具体的情形，但另一方面，我更尴尬– 因为我觉得其实一定有很多人知道！ — 有人知道有毒，但事不关己，高高挂起； 有人明知有毒，但又不是自己吃，自己用并不去管； 有人知道有毒，但无能为力，因为领导、政府根本不会理会… 但这一切的最终结果是 — 我们毒害了别人，毒害了自己，毒害了世界，败坏了made in China的名声。

- 为虎作伥的公关公司 - 立牌坊的百度 - 比那个大裤衩的楼房还要更扭曲的CCTV - 不干正事就会推卸责任空口说白话的国家质检总局 - 急于把事情推卸到奶农、奶牛身上的石家庄政府 - 去年给三鹿婴儿奶粉颁布国家科技进步奖 — “蛋白质重构技术的“有关部门”

Modern Chinese nationalism often veers between Mr. Coubertin's and Mr. Maurras's ideas of nationhood. Officially, the government likes to talk about friendship between peoples, and harmony and peace, while at the same time promoting an injured sense of historical Chinese victimhood at the hands of foreign powers. When demonstrations of Chinese nationalism run out of control, with or without official encouragement, the feeling of national hurt can turn to violent aggression. It has been happening of late in the U.S., among other places, when Chinese students attacked Tibetans, or indeed anyone who "offended the feelings of the Chinese people."

This type of official patriotism is based on a peculiarly skewed view of history. Rather than celebrate the high points of Chinese civilization, the emphasis falls entirely on suffering at the hands of foreigners. The sense of victimhood runs so deep that it is impossible for most Chinese to view themselves as aggressors. The idea that Tibetans, for example, might have some reason to see themselves as victims of the Chinese, is absurd. More than that, many Chinese genuinely believe that this type of Tibetan "propaganda" has been deliberately taken up by the Western press to inflict yet another humiliation on the Chinese people.

This does not mean, however, that democracy would be an automatic cure. In the unlikely event that China were suddenly to have a peaceful transformation to a liberal democracy, nationalism would not go away. No party seen to be soft on foreign powers, especially Japan and the U.S., would be. Modern Chinese history has been so bloody that the scars will take a long time to heal. Ethnic nationalism can be a kind of poison, especially when it is based on a feeling of victimhood. Political freedom should help to soothe such feelings in the long run, but this will not happen in time for the Beijing Olympics.

As I said, I'm all for information transparency and uncensored internet access. However a lasting progress in political reform comes from inside of a country, not from external pressure. Many Americans seem to believe in the external pressure they place on other countries; this might be a main cause of the problems with the US foreign policy. Looking at history – Americans have been in numerous countries trying to impose an order through external influence, how successful has this been?

Peter Scheer's effort to have WTO sanctions imposed based on Beijing's internet censorship, and the hearings that will be held tomorrow in Washington DC.

Both China and the Dalai Lama exaggerate, and the historical evidence about Tibet is contradictory. One can make a good case that Tibet has been a part of China at least since 1720. One can also make a good case that Tibet became independent around 1911. The evidence is simply mixed. A deal to resolve the Tibet question is still attainable. The Dalai Lama would have to put aside claims to vast areas outside the present “Tibet Autonomous Region,” and he would have to accept much less political autonomy than he wants. China would have to ease religious controls and allow the Dalai Lama to return as a spiritual leader. Most important, Beijing would have to end Han Chinese migration to all Tibetan areas, to preserve their Tibetan character.

Under the category "Cisco Opportunities," the document provides bullet point suggestions for how it might service China's censorship system called the "Golden Shield", and better known in the West as the Great Firewall of China. China's "Golden Shield" project was one of several government-run commercial opportunities for Cisco in 2002. Credit: Cisco The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression.