From the article: "To maintain monopoly control of political power in a country
with a hard-charging economy, fast-growing middle class and the rising
expectations they create, party officials will do all they can to monitor and
manage the flow of information within the country and across its borders. This
is especially important for a new generation of leaders now assuming their
posts, officials who know that public expectations for good governance have
never been higher. But with more than half a billion Chinese citizens now
online, more than 300 million active on Weibo (China’s Twitter) and an
increasingly ineffective “great firewall,” assertions of control over words and
ideas reflect little more than wishful thinking." Read more