China Internet Sleeping Giant

The always amazing Rebecca
MacKinnon points to an excellent
essay by Xiao Qiang originally
written for the Wall Street Journal, about the role of technology in
China’s recent anti-Japanese protests.

Rebecca opines: "The government certainly allowed these protests to happen,
and even encourages the rise of anti-foreign and especially anti-Japanese
nationalism in Chinese cyberspace as a way of deflecting people’s frustrations
away from their own government.