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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

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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

13255Nladimir-Pu in.says-there.was-nothintwrong-with- SoviebUnions7pact-with-Adolf-Hitlers-Nazi-Germanyhtml; Timothy Snyder. 'Putin's New Nostalgia," New York Review of Books, November 10, 20141 9. Reuters, Tulin: 'We Understand the Fatality of an Iron Curtain," Business Insider, November 23, 2014, http://www.businessins

only an interest in the welfare of China but also a loosely defined cultural, and even political, allegiance to the so-called Motherland (#4). Under Xi Jinping’s leadership, diaspora Chinese have been called on to help achieve the Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation—a summons that places growing pressure on eth

ent Xi Jinping, first at Mar-a-Lago and then at the Beijing summit, Congress took a wait-and-see posture. But as his own ardor for a partnership with Xi cooled and his administration became disenchanted with the idea of finding an easy new “engagement” policy, momentum began to shift. Soon Congress wa

ffice in 2017 and actively began courting Chinese President Xi Jinping, first at Mar-a-Lago and then at the Beij

rican Political Science Association. September 2018. Section 4 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020514 56 41 Link, Perry. “China: The Anaconda in the Chandelier.” New York Review of Books. April 11, 2002. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/04/11/china-the-anaconda-in-the-chandelier. 42 See Tiffert, Glenn. “Peering Down the Memory Ho

r of Freedom in the World. ON THE COVER Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in B

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

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