Taipei, Jan. 14 (CNA) The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) , Taiwan's top China policy authority, has urged China to respect press and Internet freedom in the wake of Internet search engine giant Google's possible pullout from China, an MAC spokesman said Thursday.
"There is still a lot of room for improvement for China over its press and Internet freedom. The MAC would like to urge China to respect freedom of the Internet and journalism, " said MAC Vice Chairman Liu Te-hsun.
China must be feeling the heat from the international community over the issue as well, Liu said one day after Google threatened to shut down Google.cn and quit China, citing cyber attacks and hackers' access to some human rights activists' e-mail accounts.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded an explanation from Beijing.
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