The End of Online Censorship?
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicts that universal encryption could end the very...
Berlin Wall
Cold War, BRICs and Why 9/11 Doesn't Matter
A Century Weekly editorial at Caixin online cites Niall Ferguson’s argument that 11/9 (1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall) is more definitive of our times than 9/11, and argues that the rise of the BRIC nations outweighs...
Chinese Netizens Leap Great Firewall of China to Mark Berlin Wall’s 20th
As CDT reported two weeks ago, Chinese netizens have taken over a website dedicated to commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall in order to blast Internet censorship in their country. Today, on the 20th anniversary of the...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: The German Wall That Fell – And the Chinese Regime That Didn’t
For the Huffington Post, Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews David Shambaugh’s China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation in light of commemorations of the fall of the Berlin Wall: Written by a high-profile political...
China Blocks State-Funded Berlin Twitter Wall
From Monsters and Critics: Chinese authorities appear to be blocking access to a state-funded website which recalls the evil of the Berlin Wall, organizers of the culture project in the German capital said Thursday. The website...
“Mr. Hu Jintao, Tear Down the Great Firewall!” (Updated with Video)
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, KulturProjekte Berlin set up a virtual “Berlin Twitter Wall” where individuals could post their thoughts on the occasion through use of a Twitter...
The Autocrats’ Learning Curve
In Foreign Policy, Jeffrey Wasserstrom looks at the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago on the Chinese Communist Party, and how it may have inadvertently helped them stay in power: China, unlike the Eastern...
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