China's Li Zhaoxing in online talk with Internet users

I have written extensively about the ambiguous position of China with regard to the Internet world, so to speak. On the one hand, they close down cybercafes to prevent access to pornography and similar vices, or, worse, they control Google's access.

On the other hand they promote the usage of the Internet and telecommunications - but both are also tools to position itself stronger in the world economy.

Anyway, China's minister of foreign affairs, Li Zhaoxing, sat down for a remarkably candid online chat with Chinese Internet users, which is an amazing feast. Once this has been done, one wonders, how the Internet can be controlled further down the road, when high-level politicians endorse online communications.

(By Asia Business Consulting)