The current public pronouncements from the China government regarding Google's assertions of government penetration into Google services has been quite revealing of the persuasive intent of China's deep and comprehensive management of information flow on the Chinese Internet:

The Washington Post published a statements from cabinet spokesman Wang Chen on the Web site of the State Council Information. There are several key phrases that caught my attention when I read the article:

I spent the morning reading through a report released earlier this month by the Association of University Research Parks (AURP), titled “The Power of Place: A National Strategy for Building America’s Communities of Innovation”. AURP is industry association that represents several dozen leading research parks and real estate developers with strong connections to major universities in the US and Canada.

On Monday, President Bush signed into law the PRO-IP Act, passed by the House in May with an amended version approved by the Senate and House in September. PRO-IP not only "toughens criminal laws against piracy and counterfeiting," it also officially establishes the position of intellectual property czar. The czar will be part of the Executive Branch and operate in the "Office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative," or USIPER (which becomes USPIER if you transpose two letters).