Willing accomplices.(Opinion)

RCR Wireless News, October, 2005

Byline: Jeffrey Silva China is hot and on a roll, grabbing headlines everywhere, a great Asian economic juggernaut in the making. The United States is part of the Asian success story, buying billions more in products and services from China than we sell to it every year. And then China does us the favor of financing much of our massive domestic budget deficit.

Here's another sparkling aspect of our curious dance with China. We're helping China root out the subversives, folks who speak of democracy, freedom, human rights and Tibetan independence in cyberspace. Yahoo! Inc. can count itself as such a deputy of censorship. Other U.S. high-tech firms are part of the online posse too. Chinese journalist Shi Tao knows. He was sentenced to a decade...

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