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We have worked with individual projects this spring in International English. The project involved choosing a topic that you find interesting and tie it up to the curriculum goals for this year. I chose to write about the internet censorship in China. The reason I chose this topic for my project was because I found it very interesting and I wanted to learn more about it. The curriculum goals I will tie this topic up to are; to discuss upon international and global challenges in the world today, and analyze and discuss the English language media’s role in international societies.

“Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet” according to Wikipedia.org. China is an example of a country that bans certain information and websites hosted outside the country. Through internet censorship, the government in China is trying to prevent its citizens from viewing these websites and from getting more information than what the government would want their citizens to know. The question I will try to answer in this assignment is: Why has China set such restrictions?

China is situated in Asia, and is the most populated country in the world, with its estimated 1.3 billion inhabitants. The country is the fourth biggest country in the world, and has experienced many periods of war, peace and splitting.

The country has always been very well-known for the Great Wall of China. This wall was built approximately 2000 years ago to protect the Asian country from the nomadic people. However, today there is a new kind of “wall”, the new wall is a political wall that is ruled by the government to "protect" the inhabitants from the real, and sometimes brutal, world outside.

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...ted Nations. No one deserves to be treated with such restrictions that are set in China; therefore I think that we should do what we can to help the Chinese citizens to be treated the way they deserve, like independent human beings.

Works Cited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_power

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China

http://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/utland/article3577727.ece

http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Market-based+economy

http://www.businesspundit.com/googles-china-withdrawal-as-much-politics-as-business/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/01/china.olympics

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/sports/olympics/31china.html

http://www.cfr.org/publication/11515/

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