For a country that censors its citizens from public information, keeping them in the dark in the age of information — they shouldn’t throw tantrums when their homegrown wireless encryption standard WAPI wasn’t favored by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for wireless networks.
ISO members voted 17 to 8 against adopting WAPI as an international standard and selected IEEE’s 802.11i as the winner.
The Chinese delegation walked out from the 2-day meeting in the Czech Republic crying that it was “meaningless for the Chinese delegation to continue in the meeting” whose atmosphere was “extremely unfair”. They even went as far as to accuse the IEEE backers of “using a lot of dirty tricks”.
Gee .. if I lived in China, I would feel that being censored from information is also “extremely unfair”, and the act of preventing me from getting the information I want by building the Great Firewall of China is also a “dirty trick”. Heck, it is also “meaningless” for me to search the web in China, because of the “extremely unfair” censorship.