China: April 27, 2001

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For the first time, China has sentenced a citizen to jail for posting pro-democracy messages on overseas web sites. Similar trials are under way. Meanwhile, Chinese and American hackers have declared they will go after each other in cyberspace. This sort of thing, which took place after the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was bombed two years ago, rarely involves much more than web site defacement. 

 

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