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...cnn.com for instance--might be blocked. China would become one big, self-contained Internet--what techies like to call an intranet--sealed off from the rest of the world. Access to foreign sites would remain under government control. Says a Hong Kong engineer who has worked with China on high-level information policy for two decades: "The Chinese worry about the Net. Will it just be an inundation of Western content, or will it reflect Chinese culture? China has every right to find a balance between local and foreign content...
...banditry that no one expected. Those who reproached him for petty indulgences at government expense--for instance, every room of his government dacha had a television set--themselves stole billions; those who were indignant that he sought advice from his wife managed to set up their closest relatives with high-level, well-paid state jobs. All the pygmies of previous years, afraid to squeak in the pre-Gorbachev era, now, with no risk of response, feel justified in insulting...
...meeting that was about to take place was not with Steele, but rather with his high-level mafia protection. They were supposed to find out who these people were--namely, what kind of connections they had--and that would determine the consequences of the fight. "They probably want money," said Melissa, "but they're probably nobodies, so they'll probably get nothing...
Every bar and club (and most businesses) in Moscow have mafia and security connections called a "krysha," or "roof." The high-level people, usually well established in the Russian Mafia world, are paid to look out for the establishment's interests. In a city where media mogul Vladimir Gusinsky runs his business out of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's office, mafiosi sit in the Duma--Russia's national legislature--and the sale of pirated videos is a quasi-legitimate business, the line between legal and illegal procedure is hopelessly fuzzy...
...Rongji made his presence felt in the U.S. was back in 1985, when American Motors' high-profile, $24 million China investment, Beijing Jeep, was on the verge of collapse. Don St. Pierre, who headed the venture, appealed to a series of Beijing officials for help but got no response. Back in Detroit, where he had been summoned for a crisis conference, he suddenly received a telex from Zhu, then the obscure vice chairman of the State Economic Commission. "Please send a high-level delegation to China immediately, and we will solve this problem," the message read...