{"id":3267,"date":"2021-03-14T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2021-03-14T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:00:06","slug":"chinas-internet-was-hailed-as-a-path-to-democracy-but-the-communist-party-reshaped-it-in-its-own-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s internet was hailed as a path to democracy but the Communist Party reshaped it in its own image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe Chinese government has made technology and innovation key priorities in its development plans for the next five years, as it strives to build a \u201cDigital China\u201d and overtake the US as the world\u2019s No 1 economy. In this first part of a series looking at the politicisation of China\u2019s internet landscape, we explain how the Communist Party gained and retained a tight grip on the online sphere, defying early expectations from the West.In 2000, then US president Bill Clinton famously said in a\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3125128\/chinas-internet-was-hailed-path-democracy-communist-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe Chinese government has made technology and innovation key priorities in its development plans for the next five years, as it strives to build a \u201cDigital&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}