I think the government [will] lose the battle. Because for a nation to develop, the government needs to correct the information, they need to have a space for people to be involved, to discuss, to participate in the change. Otherwise, I don't think they can really last in this kind of development, because economically it goes so fast but politically it stays the same as many, many years ago. I think even the government senses that this is impossible.

Ai Weiwei, In China, Is Censorship the Mother of Creativity? Interview on The Stream, Aljazeera, April 16, 2012. - 2010-