Pundits outside China sometimes assume both the inevitability of the Internet's growth and the inexorability of the political opening—alternative sources of information, communications channels beyond government control—that may follow. But Internet growth is anything but inevitable, and in China, the government's efforts have both nurtured and structured the country's Internet.
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