The fastest growth in internet use is in China’s poorer, more rural provinces, partly because of a surge in users connecting via mobile devices, which now outnumber those connecting from computers. The internet is no longer confined to an urban, educated and relatively well-off public. Most farmers are getting online to listen to music, play mobile games and check the weather, not blog dissent. But even casual users can be drawn into political debates online, and the internet is one place where people can speak their minds and criticise the government relatively freely. April 22, 2013 at 12:53PM

As the threat of a cyber war with the Chinese becomes more imminent, it’s fascinating to consider how much the early stage of this cyber war actually resembles the Cold War of the nuclear age. Instead of the threat of nuclear warheads capable of taking out communications systems and power grids, we now have malicious code capable of taking down nuclear reactors March 13, 2013 at 10:22PM

China, the world’s most populated nation, will soon become the world’s most surveilled, besting the United States as the largest market for security cameras in 2014, according to a report from Homeland Security Research Corporation (HSRC). March 07, 2013 at 11:18AM

The disparity between American and Chinese firms and their tactics will put both the government and the companies of the United States at a distinct disadvantage,” Schmidt says in the book. He writes that Washington “will not take the same path of digital corporate espionage, as its laws are much stricter (and better enforced) and because illicit competition violates the American sense of fair play.” February 04, 2013 at 11:06AM