Ongoing on China

		<blockquote class="blogquote"> 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".

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China, and its (supposedly paradoxical) embrace of capitalism and communist dictatorship is equal parts exciting and terrifying. But it doesn't export any culture.