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[mrmod]

yes i think.

without the web china would become secular, have no trade, no income as such, little innovation. they already have a virtual china web as it is.
imagine how hard it is to run a country the size of chine without global economic transactions. most of their revenue comes from exporting. the web plays a big part in assisting them with it. banking, and money transactions. much of it is now web based. imagine their currency rates and how bad they'd become if the worl shut the internet shop to them. imagine how fast a billion people would eat away any gdp they have. remember many of the 1 billion are out of work or on the poverty line.

chnia needs the rest of the world more than the rest of the world need it. of course we sell our produce there but nothing like they do here. imagine if all chinas products were stopped. people would buy our products. we'd have lower employment and higher gdp.

china needs the internet. twittwer google and facebook aren't the internet.
banking, instant information, and accounting is the real internet.

cut the internet access and you'll find many companies won't deal with china. if you can't contact them via the net, if you cant advertise via the net if you cant order or do business via the net you're fucked.

china would eat itself in ten years without a net to utilise.

Don't get me wrong Billy you are correct. But the West needs Chinese exports. A large percentage of manufactured goods are made in China. The West would starve itself if they cut trade with the country that supplies them with cheap mmanufacturing and labour. With or without Internet.

China is in the power position here. They are a large share of the market and cutting them out wouldn't benefit anyone.

And not to mention, the West has huge debts with China. China has alot of leverage at the moment. That's why they have been able to dodge international arguments (ie that British guy with the drugs, Google, kidnappings...). So stopping trade and "growing our own" would not suffice.