Peter Wilson

People's Republic of China

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Friday 27 February, 2009

China and the US

I'm going to Washington and New York next week. The Sino-American relationship has been described by strategists on both sides as the most important bilateral relationship in the world. I want to understand it better from the US side. Now is a good time to go.

One of the things that I want to talk about is growth of the internet in China. With more than 300 million people on line, China is now the most wired nation in the world - it passed the US last year, and since I started writing this blog. Over 40 million people have blogs of their own. This has a powerful effect on public opinion. As the rest of the world wants to know more about China, it is really interesting to learn more about what some people think. I also want to learn more about US public opinion on China, and how it is changing.

Happy to take your ideas on this with me, so do post them, from wherever you are. If you'd rather post them in Chinese, it is easier to visit my Chinese blog, www.vipwilson.sina.com .

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Peter - you mentioned China and the internet. Any thoughts on Chinese 'cybernationalism'?

Posted by Surat on February 28, 2009 at 05:55 AM GMT #

It maybe the largest subscriber to the Internet, which is not a surprise considering there are 1.4 billion Chinese in world of 5billion, but it is also the most censored, controlled and less free of the worlds major powers. So all things in moderation?

Posted by Alan Baker on March 11, 2009 at 06:46 AM GMT #

Now that you are back: how did it go? What did you learn that you can share with us?

Posted by Cyril Sayag on March 13, 2009 at 08:53 AM GMT #

i will viste your chinese blog welcome to china

Posted by facechina on May 22, 2009 at 07:10 AM BST #

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