Fareed Zakaria, colunista da revista Newsweek, acaba de lançar um livro que, lá fora, tem rendido muitos elogios: The post american world (288 páginas, Current Affairs), cujo cerne é este: "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else". O homem conhece as pedras que estão rolando mundo afora, e na edição da semana passada da Newsweek publicou uma rara entrevista com o primeiro-ministro chinês Wen Jiabao. O bate-papo, em Nova York, durante a abertura da Assembléia Geral das Nações Unidas, foi porrada, inteligente e civilizado, como você pode ler no trecho abaixo:
When I go to China and I ' m in a hotel and I type the words " Tiananmen Square " into my computer, I get a firewall, what some people call the Great Firewall of China. Can you be an advanced society if you don ' t have freedom of information?
China now has over 200 million Internet users and the freedom of the Internet in China is recognized by many, even in the West. To uphold state security, China, like many countries in the world, has also imposed some proper restrictions. On the Internet in China, you can have access to a lot of postings that are quite critical about the government. It is exactly through reading these critical opinions on the Internet that we try to locate problems and further improve our work. I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views.
What are your favorite sites?
I've browsed a lot of Web sites.
A íntegra da entrevista, aqui.
Para ler um capítulo do livro de Zakaria, aqui.
