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Since U.S. Secretary of State James Baker heralded the end of the Cold War in the Asia-Pacific with the earlier mentioned statement,2 the idea that the globalization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can transform an authoritarian state like China in harmony with American national interests has become something of a mantra for successive Washington administrations. In December 2000, U.S. President Clinton compared cracking down on the Internet in China with “trying to nail Jello to the wall.”3
… no nation has yet discovered a way to import the world’s goods and services while stopping foreign ideas at the border. It is in our interests that the next generation in China be engaged by the Information Age, not isolated from global trends shaping the future.
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Hughes, C.R. (2004). Controlling the Internet Architecture within Greater China. In: Mengin, F. (eds) Cyber China. The CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979551_5
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