Hard power, soft targets

“What was fascinating to me,” he says, “was that one of my parliamentary colleagues would send my email straight to the consul-general, or the Chinese ambassador, or both.”

China traps online dissent

..Bill Clinton, then US president, … predicted that liberty would spread unstoppably in the 21st century “by cell phone and cable modem”. “There’s no question China has been trying to crack down on the internet,” Mr Clinton said. “Good luck. That’s sort of like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.”