We can surf the internet freely in China and I can access any websites and never meet the firewall you refer to.I don't know whether what you say is true or not.Meanwhile I welcome you and others who are interested in the history and actuality and culture etc. of  China to come to China.
    If you know the chinese language you can go and browse the website written by mandarin of chinese to learn a real China.Welcoming...
    Sometime the media are irresponsible and if we just believe what they say we are too stupid.

Post a link to something actual.  Your flights of fantasy will not be answered.  But an actual situation, now that is different.

From the perspective of someone inside China, the 'great firewall of China' would be invisible and unknown.

As far as I know, the Chinese government has not closed off access to western discussion forums or English-language blogs generally.

It is quite likely that this forum would be available to Chinese web-surfers.

More so than you.  You need a script from your communist overlords.  I do it all on my own.

The real US deficit with China – knowledge
As China returns as a world power, Americans should update their impressions.
By Xu Wu
from the May 1, 2008 edition

Tempe, Arizona - Americans are out of touch with today's China. It's a knowledge deficit that carries more weight in the long-term bilateral relationships between China and the United States than the ballooning US trade deficit with China. And as China makes a comeback on the world stage, it's one that the US should address.

Chinese visitors to the US have shared the shock of witnessing a severe dichotomy between how much Americans seem to talk about China and yet how little they know about it. The US status as the world's superpower, coupled with its location, warrants people this type of benign negligence.

But what about those experts who have the power to impose their perceptions of China on others? All too often China experts in the US cannot even speak the language. How can they claim to understand a culture without knowing how its people communicate?

This knowledge deficit accounts directly for widespread and deep-rooted misperceptions about China.

There are three faulty, recurring talking points in the American media.

First, China is a rising power, and a rising power is dangerous. The first part of this argument is incomplete, and the latter part is misplaced. China is not only a rising power; it is a returning power. China, as a united continental power, has existed for more than 2,000 years.

As a returning player, China is composed, restrained, and mature, just like a former champion returning to the title game after a short lapse. Also, if history is any guide, Chinese-ruling regimes have not been considered aggressive or expansive; they were famous for building walls. This fact alone should call into question the comparison of China's current resurgence with Japan's and Germany's disastrous rising path before World War II.

Second, China is a Communist country, and Communism is evil. Repeatedly placed upon China by media commentators, most notably CNN's anchorman Lou Dobbs, this characterization is both simplistic and utterly misleading.

To today's China, Marxism is as foreign as liberal democracy. When you look back at China's past, no alien cultures have uprooted Chinese tradition; instead, they were either localized, or submerged. China can still be Chinese without the Communism title.

Likewise, today's ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could easily be renamed the Chinese Confucian Party (CCP) without changing much of its ideological belief or organizational structure, or even its acronym for that matter.

Both the "ruling by virtue" policy promoted by former President Jiang Zemin and the "harmonious society" guideline proposed by current leader Hu Jintao were derived more from the Confucian doctrine than from the Marxist ideology. Singling out "Communist" as the definer confuses the reality.

Third, Tiananmen Square in 1989 is an iconic image that lingers in the minds of the Chinese. American observers' obsession with this tragic event reflects how deep their perception gap about China runs. There is no question that what happened that summer was historic. However, it was a generation ago, and sea changes have occurred since then.

Those who were born in 1989 are turning 19. What this new Chinese generation cares about is not the guy who blocked those tanks, but the Chinese Super Girl Singer and Yao Ming. America's unyielding interest in Tiananmen is out of touch. Is the Watergate scandal still the dominant issue facing the US today?

This lack of updated information about China becomes more problematic in a larger context. Chinese students are required to study English beginning in primary school. Students are exposed to both American culture and the Western way of thinking by college. For at least two decades, tens of thousands of the best and the brightest Chinese students attend American's top-tier graduate schools, channeling back the most updated perceptions and information about the US.

Although the number of American students studying in China witnessed a huge jump over the past few years, the accumulated knowledge deficits and language barriers are still immense.

This imbalance of knowledge, just like the imbalance of trade, is unsustainable. With the trade problem, Chinese leaders outlined a "win-win partner" scenario, and American policymakers have mapped out the "responsible stakeholder" blueprint. However, no strategy will be feasible if the two parties cannot understand each other well enough to weather the uncertainties ahead.

It is highly probable that the next generation of Americans will live in a world where China is the largest economic power. Are they prepared? When and how are they going to fix this current knowledge deficit with China?

? Xu Wu is an assistant professor in strategic media and public relations at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He is the author of "Chinese Cyber Nationalism."

From:http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0501/p09s02-coop.html

       I don't know that where the above information "Internet firewall censorship including jailing and sometimes even torture of those who speak against the Party online and in fact human rights in general " are from. You got them form medias for instence CNN or you see it in your own eyes ? Dare you to assure that what you say are truth? So make sure you don't lie and you don't cheated by others.
      That the western "misunderstandings" of China is assuredly existent.That you say there is no misunderstanding at all shows that you don't understand China at all.I guess you haven't come to China so far.
      I advise you to talk to the chinese who study in US or live in US.Meanwhile you also can talk to the foreigners who had come to China.
     Just to be a intelligent and clear person.You will be happy.



How did your government do for the riot occured in Los Angeles on April 29, 1992 about 16 years ago.
        The Los Angeles riots of 1992, also known as the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King following a high-speed pursuit. Thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. Widespread looting, assault, arson, and murder occurred. Many of the crimes were gang-motivated or perpetrated. In all, 53 people died during the riots.
       The deployment of a large police force of the US government to arrest more than 10,000 rioters in the great rioting. More than 50 killed, over 4 thousand injured, 12,000 people arrested, and $1 billion in property damage.(http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/la/la_riot.html)

      As the senseless violence reached it's peak in Los Angeles on Thursday night, reports began to be received that it had spread to other cities and states across the country.
1.    In Northern California, 1,400 people were arrested in San Francisco as rioting engulfed the city's downtown area. A State of Emergency was declared there and a curfew established.

2.    In Los Vegas, a mob of two-hundred (200) people went on a rampage, setting fires, and engaged in sniper fire and  drive-by shootings. Local law enforcement officials admitted that they were overwhelmed and requested the activation of the Nevada National Guard. The Governor complied and control has reportedly been somewhat re- established. Reports were received of several arson fires.

(3.)    Seattle was struck by mobs of 50-100 people, who randomly broke windows and and looted numerous cars in downtown Seattle during the night Thursday and early Friday. Police say that forty-five (45) people were arrested and five (5) injuried during the violent spree. Firefighters responded to twenty-eight (28) fire calls during the unrest, including five (5) buildings that were termed "suspicious in nature".

(4.)    Further East, Black protestors in New York City reportedly pulled two white men from a truck, stabbed one and beat the other. An estimated two-hundred (200) protestors attacked the doors at Madison Square Gardens causing injuries and property damage. Another crowd of four-hundred (400) black youths reportedly stormed a popular shopping mall and smashed windows and stole merchandise. Shops and businesses were damaged as the "melee" traveled over several blocks. As many as eighty (80) arrests were made and several police officers injuried. Many NYC employers were said to have released workers from work early to avoid further occurances.

(5.)    Police in Atlanta, GA were confronted on Friday, by hundreds of black protestors. This followed a night of three-hundred (300) arrests and fifty-seven (57) injuries. It also prompted the use of teargas and a call for the Georgia National Guard to help combat large crowds of people looting and throwing rocks and bricks. Mayor Maynard Jackson called for calm and understanding, as he counselled college students that had originally begun peaceful protests which escalated into wide-spread violence.

http://www.emergency.com/la-riots.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6udJ5g4Tdqc
etc.


What's more, Do you and US gov still remember the riot on August 11, 1965, in Watts, a suburb of Los Angeles?
In those days, 34 people died, 1,032 were injured, and 3,952 were arrested.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Riot)
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDvY_anJdc
etc.