Middle East North Africa . Financial Network – MENAFN
Very interesting article following the issue of U.S. Annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices in China, released Feb. 25, 2004. Among the several (impressionistic albeit provocative) analyses the article offers, it includes the following:
“‘The government continued and intensified efforts to monitor and control use of the Internet and other wireless technology. . . .’ This is an area where sheer numbers may thwart the government’s efforts at control. Monitoring the country’s nearly 80 million Internet users and 276.8 million cell phone owners may be an impossible task.”
The article ends by noting that the National People’s Congress is expected to approve an amendment in China’s constitution to include protection of human rights when it meets next month. The impact of such an amendment is hardly clear, however.
