THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION. IT SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS A POSITION OR A STATEMENT OF MY EMPLOYER. Ok, it looks like Bay Networks made a sweet deal with Chinese commies. Essentially, they will provide technology for the state propaganda network and censored Internet. Their "partnership" with censors of a communist regime is repugnant. Using the modern technology to build a giant brainwashing machine is very scary. Some companies will do anything for a buck, though. How about boycotting their products in U.S. and other democratic countries? --vadim Chinese intranet to launch in February January 15, 1997 Web posted at: 12:40 a.m. EST HONG KONG (Reuter) -- Bay Networks Inc. and the China Internet Corp., controlled by Beijing's state news agency, have formed a partnership to create a nationwide intranet in China, the companies said Tuesday. The companies declined to disclose the value of the deal that will establish a network covering more than 50 cities, 20 of them by the end of 1997. An intranet is an internal network that uses Internet global computer network technology. Access in and out of the intranet is possible -- intranets can be linked to the Internet proper -- but access can be controlled. The first phase connecting Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou is to be launched next month, offering tailored information mostly in Chinese to government entities, joint ventures and corporations in China. Copyright 1997 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.