The Foreign Service Journal, May 2005

“disaster relief” and “logistics” and special reports on such topics as the recent anti-secession law and the Six- Party Talks with North Korea. Similarly, the China National Space Administration maintains a user-friendly Web site with news and information on its activities and poli- cies ( www.cnsa.gov.cn/main_e.asp ). Also of interest to China-watchers, and potential investors in particular, China’s National Bureau of Statistics’ Web site presents up-to-date eco- nomic data, including the laws and regulations governing the country’s preparation of economic accounts and news related to development of the country’s statistical system ( www. stats.gov.cn/english ). A joint project of the Chinese gov- ernment and the World Bank, the China Development Gateway con- tains extensive resources, with both news and background in every area of China’s economic and social develop- ment ( www.chinagate.com.cn/ english/index.htm ). T he site also features news and background on World Bank activities in China. For the Western view on develop- ments in China, the big-name think tanks with China programs offer online reports and commentary. These include the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace ( www. carnegieendowment.org/pro grams/china ); th e Center for Strate- gic and International Studies ( www. csis.org/china/index.cfm ); th e Brook- ings Institution’s Center for North Asian Policy Studies ( http://www. brookings.edu/fp.cnaps/center_hp .htm ); an d the Hoover Institution’s China Leadership Monitor ( www. chinaleadershipmonitor.org/ about.html ), am ong others. There are also a number of sites, often interactive, that address aspects of civil society in China. The New York-based Human Rights in China is an international nongovernmental organization founded by Chinese sci- entists and scholars in 1989 with the help of the Open Society Institute. HRIC engages activists, officials and scholars inside and outside of China ( www.hrichina.org ). C hina Digital Times is a Web site run by the Berkeley China Internet Project at the U.C.-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism ( http://journalism. berkeley.edu/program/ch ina- internet/ ). The project’s mission is to explore the impact of the digital communications revolution on China’s transition. ■ C Y B E R N O T E S 14 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / M A Y 2 0 0 5 I ’m disappointed that Iraq hasn’t turned out better. And that we weren’t able to move forward more meaningfully in the Middle East peace process. … The biggest regret is that we didn’t stop 9/11. And then in the wake of 9/11, instead of redoubling what is our traditional export of hope and optimism, we exported our fear and our anger. And presented a very intense and angry face to the world. I regret that a lot. — Richard Armitage, former Deputy Secretary of State, on the disappoint- ments of the first Bush term, www.theaustralian. news.com.au , Jan. 20.