{"id":373,"date":"2009-02-01T21:21:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T01:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-02-01T21:21:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T01:21:39","slug":"dear-mr-president-china-is-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2009\/02\/01\/dear-mr-president-china-is-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mr. President, China is Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure you give some time to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rebecca-mackinnon\/dear-president-obama-in-t_b_161417.html\">great piece<\/a> by Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Berkman fellow and currently an indispensable inside-source on China, freedom, internet censorship, etc. Her open letter to Pres. Obama on the value of the internet in re-defining U.S.-China relationships hits it exactly on the mark, especially in suggesting that a new post-&#8220;Radio Free Asia&#8221; kind of public diplomacy is necessary to engage the Web 2.0 generation of Chinese fervently using blogs, Skype and Twitter. (On the theme of revamping public diplomacy, see my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2008\/12\/08\/conversation-not-dictation-public-diplomacy-20\/\">piece<\/a> about James Glassman.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make sure you give some time to this great piece by Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Berkman fellow and currently an indispensable inside-source on China, freedom, internet censorship, etc. Her open letter to Pres. Obama on the value of the internet in re-defining U.S.-China relationships hits it exactly on the mark, especially in suggesting that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,359,2097,2128,2142,678],"tags":[141,56353,2117,3261,1057],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-china","category-states","category-free-speech","category-id-project","category-ideas","tag-blogs","tag-china","tag-democracy","tag-twitter","tag-web-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}