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30 Jul 09

这是好消息。坏消息是，中国最近的增长代价高昂。由于担心近期经济滑坡将会加剧，中国决策者在制定宏观战略时选择了数量胜过质量的战略，其中最主要的是由井喷式的银行贷款融资的基础设施支出大幅增长。
在中国近期实施的4万亿元人民币（合5850亿美元）经济刺激方案中，基础设施支出（包括四川地震重建支出）足足占据了72%的份额。中国政府敦促银行加速为刺激计划提供融资。银行照做了
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- 相反，渴望增长的中国却受到全球贸易繁荣的引诱，在最不平衡的行业加大了赌注。在2007年以前，投资和出口占中国GDP的80%左右。如今，面对严重的全球衰退，中国却让温总理警告过的那些问题更为恶化：将受流动性推动的巨额刺激方案瞄准了最不平衡的行业。
- 中国必须让经济增长转向国内私人消费。这可能需要在增长规模上做出妥协。但鉴于这会改善中国经济的质量，在增长方面做出短期的牺牲还是非常值得的。

27 Mar 09

Around the globe, government authorities often use legal or technical means to censor information and communications online. The recent blocking of YouTube in China was done without notice to the public or any explanation of the legal basis for the action. Such actions are inconsistent with the rule of law and the right to freedom of expression.
The Chinese government’s statements to date have not provided an explanation of whether YouTube is officially blocked, and if so what content may have violated the law, or on whose authority the blocking was imposed.
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- Many blocking remedies appear to be broader than necessary to further local law and policy goals. Such overbroad actions inhibit the exercise of basic human rights to freedom of expression and access to information. Blocking not only impacts the right of people in that country to speak and access information, but also the right of the world to speak to people in the country imposing the block.

27 Jan 09

can we borrow that?

Journalists measured whether the web-sites are accessible, have necessary volume of the information and whether the information is clear. Also they looked for analytics, statistics, language balance and examined how fresh is the information etc. Finally, MediaNet has got 2 lists – «the best» and «the worse» state-owned web-sites.