(18 Jan 2010) SHOTLIST
AP Television
Beijing, China, 14 January 2010
1. Various Google building with Google sign in front
2. Close of flowers next to Google sign left by supporters
3. Close of note, reading: (English) "Freedom!"
4. Wide shot employee entering Google offices
5. Tilt up Google building
6. Mid of Google sign
Pool
Beijing, China, 15 January 2010
7. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, arriving for news conference
8. Cutaway of reporter
9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Jiechi, Chinese Foreign Minister:
"As for the issue of internet, I emphasised in the talks that the Chinese government conducts open policies to the internet."
10. Cutaway of briefing
11. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Jiechi, Chinese Foreign Minister:
"According to the Chinese constitution and other regulations, we have to maintain the stability of the country and prevent things from happening that will hurt the mental and physical health of our citizens."
12. Cutaway of briefing
13. SOUNDBITE (German) Guido Westerwelle, German Foreign Minister:
"We raised the issue of internet freedom to our Chinese colleagues and asked the Chinese side to brief to us on the situation and role of Google in China."
AP Television
Beijing, China, 15 January 2010
14. Set up shot of Michael Anti, blogger and journalist
15. Close of hands
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Anti, Blogger and journalist:
"I think it''s the taste of freedom, because before Chinese had no, you know, when you mentioned democracy, Chinese always say ''it''s American democracy'', but now you say ''freedom of speech'', we know it''s our freedom of speech. Why? Internet and Google gave us."
17. Close of mug
18. Wide of Michael Anti, blogger and journalist
LEAD IN
Internet users in China are waiting to see whether Google will abandon the Chinese market.
The site hopes to persuade the government to let them show uncensored search results.
But the Chinese government is staying firm, insisting it already has an open policy towards the Internet.
STORYLINE
China said on Friday (15th January) that it had an "open policy" towards the Internet, but gave no sign it might relax Internet controls.
During a joint news conference with his German counterpart, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi says his country needed to maintain its "stability" and "the mental and physical health" of its citizens.
Yang was reacting to a comment by the visiting German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, in which he expressed his country''s concern regarding the freedom of information in China and asked the Chinese authorities to brief him about the Google case.
Google is prepared to abandon the Internet''s biggest market because of computer-hacking attacks that pried into the e-mail accounts of human-rights activists protesting the Chinese government''s policies.
The assault also hit at least 20 other publicly traded companies, according to Google.
The loss of such a high-profile company would be an embarrassment to communist leaders, who want to make China a technology leader.
But the ruling party sees control over information as critical to maintaining its monopoly on power.
Google hopes it can persuade the Chinese government to agree to changes that would enable its China-based Google.cn site to show uncensored search results.
Beijing requires Internet traffic to pass through government-controlled gateways that block access to material deemed subversive or pornographic.
Google''s China-based site excludes from its results any foreign Web sites to which access is blocked.
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