Global Web deal needs China input

LONDON / BEIJING - Any international agreement on Internet regulation without China's participation will be incomplete and less effective, warned a leading British think tank, as France is expected to place the Internet on the agenda of the G8 Summit for the first time.

Nigel Inkster, director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said it is necessary to start discussion on the issue at such a high-level meeting.

But he downplayed what could be actually achieved at the summit, scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Deauville, northwestern France.