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--></style></head><body lang=EN-IN link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>A choice collection of autocrats though. If putting them in charge means more participation for anybody other than the individual governments and their cronies please color me surprised.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><daveburstein2@gmail.com> on behalf of Dave Burstein <daveb@dslprime.com><br><b>Date: </b>Friday, 2 February 2018 at 5:58 AM<br><b>To: </b>"suresh@hserus.net" <suresh@hserus.net><br><b>Cc: </b>parminder <parminder.js@gmail.com>, <governance@lists.riseup.net>, BestBitsList <bestbits@lists.bestbits.net>, "Forum@Justnetcoalition. Org" <forum@justnetcoalition.org><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [governance] [bestbits] UN Working Group considering mechanisms for global governance of Internet fails<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span lang=EN-GB>S</span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>ince Suresh asked </span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"</span>it’d be interesting if the Chinese have fit internet governance issues into that effort instead of a string of roads, ports etc<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Actually, they have <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'></span><a href="http://netpolicynews.com/index.php/component/content/article/89-r/892-brics-in-xiamen-equal-participation-of-the-international-community" title="Putin, Xi, Modi, Temer, Zuma: Our 3,000,000,000 People Think the U.S. Shouldn’t Run the Internet (Xiamen Statement) First Look"><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#132845;text-decoration:none'>Putin, Xi, Modi, Temer, Zuma: Our 3,000,000,000 People Think the U.S. Shouldn’t Run the Internet (Xiamen Statement) First Look</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black'> </span></span><a href="http://bit.ly/BRICsIG"><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"'>http://bit.ly/BRICsIG</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I don't like the authoritarian nature of the Chinese government, but I think we're fooling ourselves if we try to run the Internet without them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody'><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>