Interesting Weekly Standard essay by Ethan Guttman on China and the internet, which ends with this warning:

The American business presence in China is deeply, perhaps fatally, compromised as an agent for liberalizing change. The Internet remains the strongest force for democracy available to the Chinese people. But it remains a mere potentiality, yet another American dream, unless we first grapple with the question: Who lost China’s Internet? Well, we did. But we can still repair the damage. We can, in [American computer engineer and Chinese network architect Michael Robinson’s] words, ‘lay down the communication network for revolution.’ If we don’t, his progeny may not forgive us.

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