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n the internees potential as a mobilizing force for critics or reformers. Indeed, after years of intense pressure, the medium is drawing closer to Xi Jinping's ideal of an internet that is "clear and bright"24 Global reach Both Russia and China have launched ambitious and expensive projects to expand the
r of Freedom in the World. ON THE COVER Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in B
ding to which individual countries would independently choose their own path of cyber development" and "model of cyber regulation."16 In late 2015, Xi also made the baffling statement, "Freedom is what order is meant for, and order is the guarantee of freedom:16 Over the next several months, regu
.2° China added Time and the Economist to the list of blocked media websites in 2016, apparently in retaliation for articles that were critical of Xi Jinping's accumulation of power.21 In February 2016 visits to China Central Tele- vision (CCTV), the Xinhua news agency, and the Peoples Daily newspaper—the
Lozovslw, 'How Azerbaijan and Its Lobbyists Spin Congress,' Foreign Po/icy, June 11, 2015, bnpli 16. Ken Silverstein, 'How Bahrain Works Washington; Salon, December 8, 2011, works.pashingtont Akbar Shahid Ahmed, 'How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washington Influence Game," Millington PosL Septem
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r of Freedom in the World. ON THE COVER Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in B
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019234 →y, a basic assumption behind the report is that modern authoritarianism will be a lasting feature of geopolitics. Since 2012, both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have doubled down on existing efforts to stamp out internal dissent, and both have grown more aggressive on the world stage. All despotic reg
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019238 →ken the internet's potential as a mobilizing force for critics or reformers. Indeed, after years of intense pressure, the medium is drawing closer to Xi Jinping’s ideal of an internet that is “clear and bright." Global reach Both Russia and China have launched ambitious and expensive projects to expand the rea
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019253 →r optimism about the war. Brooks’ public writing about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is similar to those by neoconservatives, according to a Salon article by Glenn Greenwald, that labels Brooks as a neoconservative. His angry dismissal of the conviction of Scooter Libby as being “a farce” and ha
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017534 →Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, a
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017555 →Entities connected to both Xi Jinping and Salon

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