Censorship in China

"要深入实施网络内容建设工程，弘扬主旋律，激发正能量，让科学理论、正确舆论、优秀文化充盈网络空间。发展积极向上的网络文化，引导互联网企业和网民创作生产传播格调健康的网络文学、网络音乐、网络表演、网络电影、网络剧、网络音视频、网络动漫、网络游戏等。加强网上热点话题和突发事件的正确引导、有效引导，明辨是非、分清善恶，让正确道德取向成为网络空间的主流。"

"There's a point where I don't think the [Chinese] Communist Party with any level of censorship is going to be able to control a disgruntled population of almost 1.4 billion people."

"In Canada not everyone will agree with Harper's interpretation of what Vimy means for today. We have a multiplicity of views about the past and its significance for the present. In China, by contrast, the Communist Party does its best to ensure that the public gets only one version of history. When my book on Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 came out, Chinese publishers showed an interest in translating it. There would, however, have to be a few small changes. Mention of the Cultural Revolution and of Mao’s often scandalous private life would have to go. (The book has not been published in China.) Although the Communist Party has repudiated most of Mao’s policies, it still holds him up as the father of the Communist Revolution. To question him would be to undermine the Party’s own authority to rule China."