Daily commentary about China by TIME correspondents.
A Call for Liu Xiaobo's Release
A group of writers, scholars and Nobel laureates have signed an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao calling for the release of Liu Xiaobo, one of the authors and signers of the human rights manifesto Charter 08. Here's my latest story on the government's response to the document, which was issued earlier this month during several politically sensitive anniversaries.
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They are in the cold cages, while You are in your sweet holiday. That's China, "where the amazing happens"(from NBA)!
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[...] Charter 08, it has already become old news, lost in the indifference of Western media (with notable exceptions), and erased in China by the cold intervention of the censors. I want to examine here the [...]
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