If this summit is any indicator, it'll be hard for the U.S. No matter the issue on the table, there's a deep cultural disconnect. SHAHANI: But Zhou's desire to control digital life couldn't be further from the American perspective. ISIS used the Internet as the platform to promote the extremist views. ZHOU HANHUA: How to regulate the Internet, especially considering the social media. He really wanted to ask his American counterparts. The closed-door meetings were full of presentations, not real dialogue. SHAHANI: Chinese delegate Zhou Hanhua, a law professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences - he feels disappointed, too. RASCOFF: It's good to hear the Chinese government saying these things, but I'd like to see actions to back them up. He won't get into who said what, but his overall feeling is American companies aren't getting a fair break despite Chinese officials promising reforms. SHAHANI: That's Spencer Rascoff, CEO of the online real estate company,. SPENCER RASCOFF: I think the American business community is a little bit skeptical. Media are not allowed, but two delegates agree to talk with NPR. and China head into closed-door meetings. When the session ends, delegates from the U.S. SHAHANI: The Chinese burst into applause. They arrive at dry land safely and become best friends.
LU: (Through interpreter) They face the same risk, so they stop all the quarreling.
To survive, they need to lower the sails. LU WEI: (Through interpreter) Two men are on the same boat, and as they are sailing off, they encounter countless reefs they cannot see. The cybersecurity tsar of China, a man named Lu Wei, steps to the mic and gives an impassioned speech with some talking points and a parable - a very colorful parable. made the Internet, and China is now its biggest market. SHAHANI: They're here because, as participants put it, the U.S. GARFIELD: If we're going to stick to our talking points and not address those issues, then why be here at all? companies about Chinese nepotism, about Chinese hackers. The American side keeps sounding distrustful about how open China is or is not to U.S. SHAHANI: Over and over, the Chinese talk about the importance of trusting each other's intentions. SHAHANI: Dean Garfield, president of the U.S.-based Information Technology Industry Coalition, is definitely not so rosy in his remarks.ĭEAN GARFIELD: The collective collaboration between the United States and China is, let's say, suboptimal. WU HEQUAN: (Through Interpreter) We have different cultures, but our ideals are the same.
Wu Hequan, chairman of the Internet Society of China, offers a rosy outlook. and Chinese leaders are talking past each other. We're going to start momentarily.ĪARTI SHAHANI, BYLINE: At the Microsoft Campus, Building 33, U.S. NPR's Aarti Shahani got to attend one of those meetings and, she reports, a whole lot got lost in translation. And while he was checking out the Xbox, his top brass was meeting with American CEOs and politicians to talk about the Internet, how to keep building it and control it. Yesterday, China's president, Xi Jinping, toured the Microsoft headquarters while visiting Seattle.
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