A most peculiar (semi-official?) Chinese take on wikileaks. M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerald Groot Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 8:28 PM To: 'chinese internet research' Subject: [chineseinternetresearch] GT worries about Wikileaks
Questions linger around WikiLeaks * Source: Global Times * [08:13 December 01 2010] * http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/editorial/2010-12/597878.html The Sweden-based Internet company WikiLeaks has been showered with media and public attention after exposing more highly confidential material regarding US diplomacy with other countries. It seems that the exposure is bringing WikiLeaks praise and applause by embarrassing the world's most powerful country. But questions are raised when one takes a closer look at the website. How long will a website committed to whistle blowing on the US government be tolerated? WikiLeaks, since this summer, has embarrassed Uncle Sam several times. This July it released some 90,000 documents on the US-led Afghanistan War. This week a further 250,000 US diplomatic documents were made public, creating a "9/11 of world diplomacy." But it is worth noticing that most of the materials that were exposed are sensational in nature, yet minor pieces of information, and the negative effects their release can pretty much be mitigated by some remedial work. The US State Department has condemned the WikiLeaks release, which seems only to have increased the credibility of the website. WikiLeaks claims that it has a large number of volunteers working all over the world with access to confidential information for free. The powerful and ubiquitous CIA has not been able to identify the source of the sudden leakage of diplomatic secrets. It sounds more or less unconvincing. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is still on the run, despite his high public profile. Is there some tacit understanding between the website and the US government? It may be worth asking. And what does it mean to other countries that are on the radar screen of WikiLeaks? If granted real authority, once WikiLeaks sets its sights on other countries, the fallout could be drastic. Leaked information could severely damage the social stability of nations that are not able to handle the release of so much sensitive information. An information tsunami is flooding every country, but different countries have different abilities to control and absorb it. Developed countries, especially the US, dominate the global flow of information at the moment. 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