November 7 2007
I found people remarkably free in talking about politics. Mostly I talked to geeks, of course; they laughed at the Great Firewall (finding a proxy to get around it is no big deal) but were livid with fury about how if you want to put up a web-site, you have to get approval from three different ministries, and then you might get a call from another saying "You need our approval too".
China, and its (supposedly paradoxical) embrace of capitalism and communist dictatorship is equal parts exciting and terrifying. But it doesn't export any culture.
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