Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policy for the Net that is as bold as it is surprising: jump in with both feet. Though China still blacks out dozens of sites (you won't read this story online in China; Time Warner's Pathfinder site is on the list), a rising generation of Western-educated officials is pressing home the argument that the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport the Middle Kingdom into the 21st century. It's as if Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided with Moore's Law (Intel founder Gordon Moore's observation that the speed...
...intranet--sealed off from the rest of the world. Access to foreign sites would remain under government control. Says a Hong Kong engineer who has worked with China on high-level information policy for two decades: "The Chinese worry about the Net. Will it just be an inundation of Western content, or will it reflect Chinese culture? China has every right to find a balance between local and foreign content...
...government in 1996 banned access to a range of sites from playboy.com to time.com in order to help combat "spiritual pollution." But an afternoon's surfing in Beijing shows the government firewalls that block access to these sites are only partly effective. While cnn.com is resolutely blocked, other Western news-focused sites are occasionally accessible because of software glitches on the blackout servers. And most Chinese with Net access are savvy enough to find what they want even in the face of a watchful, nervous government. One group of university students in Tibet fired up a browser in front...
...luminous sign. Generations have used it as a target for their dreams, hopes and fears. Since prophecies usually tell us more about the past than the future, how the millennium was envisioned--and, in a sense, invented--during earlier eras says a great deal about the successive stages of Western history, about the religious as well as secular faith of our ancestors--in short, about how we came to be what...
...subsidies for such weapons purchases. Hungary, for example, intends to spend almost $1 billion on new jet fighters. Can Poland be far behind? These countries don't need top-of-the-line warplanes and tanks, but the hardware is part of a plan to achieve "interoperability" with the Western allies. Ukraine, Russia and other states left outside NATO will be sure to react...