Naming China among a handful of countries that have stepped up Internet censorship, Clinton warned that “a new information curtain is descending across much of the world.” Her statement, with its allusion to the Cold War-era Iron Curtain, amounted to an implicit admission that the central assumption guiding US policy on China since the 1990’s – that assisting China’s economic rise would usher in greater political openness there – has gone awry.
克林顿将中国列入一批已加强网络审查的国家名单之中，并就此警告说：“一道新的信息大幕已在全球许多地区降下”。她的此番声明与关于冷战期间铁幕的暗示，相当于含蓄承认了自上世纪九十年代以来，引导美国对华政策的核心假设（即认为帮助中国经济崛起，将会为该国带来更大的政治开放性），已经出现了问题。