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China may well become the world’s largest economy, but because its policies
have exhibited such fear of
the Internet, it “can’t lead a knowledge-based revolution,” former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told
CNBC Wednesday.
“China has a political system that’s quite rigid,” added Rice, who was
secretary of state under President
George W. Bush and an advisor and confidante in his father’s administration
. Rice, who has just published a
book about her parents called Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of
Family, is a professor of political
economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
“Can a country that’s so fearful of the Internet, can that country lead
the knowledge-based revolution? I
don’t think so.”
China is one of the world's most stringent in Internet censorship. The
country restricts websites that discuss
the Dalai Lama, the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Falun
Gong, the banned spiritual
movement, and other Internet sites, according to the New York Times.
Rice touched on fear also when discussing immigration, education and the US
competing globally.
Rather than being concerned about immigrants and immigration, which is a
political hot button in this
country, she said, immigrants “after all are the people who refresh us and
keep us from the sclerotic
demographics of Europe and the tragic demographics of Russia.”
She issued a word of caution, should the United States fail to maintain its
dominance in business and
politics.
“If the United States doesn’t lead in the global economy and the
international political system,” she said,
“the world is going to be a more dangerous place, and we as a people are
going to suffer.” |
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