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The chief concern of the U.S. is to prevent the new leadership from kicking out the U.S. air base in the northern city of Manas, which is a vital transport link for America's war in nearby Afghanistan. About 50,000 coalition troops passed through it in March alone. On...
Facebook is in the business of connecting people all over the world, but the social-networking giant is on the verge of losing one of its most influential friends in Germany - the Minister of Consumer Protection - because of a disagreement over the site's privacy regulations. Ilse Aigner effectively declared...
Germany's data-protection officials have already taken their concerns over Facebook's compliance with privacy laws to the European Union. The authorities insist that Facebook is violating German laws by setting "cookies" on German computers to capture users' data. "Facebook is taking the e-mail addresses of non-users...
Despite those restrictions, the Internet in China roils with debate over current events. China now has an estimated 384 million Internet users, more than the total population of the U.S. That size, combined with the growing popularity of interactive applications that allow users to generate their own content, has placed...
Perhaps the greatest threat China's censorship regime now faces is that it can't seem to stop debate over censorship itself. Since Google declared in January that it planned to stop censoring its Web search results in China, the state of online censorship has come under increasing scrutiny. The...