The Chinese government may have been caught flat-footed by the big Google anti-censorship announcement and the US speech on Internet freedom, but the country's leaders are making up for lost time. The US has had its chance to speak, and now it's China's turn to mount the moral high horse.
A basic message has crystallized over the last week as editors and reporters cover the basic talking points and conduct interviews with Chinese officials: there's a double standard at work, all our censorship is legal, and China had nothing to do with Google hacking.
Here are the latest developments:
