Surgery for Ai Weiwei in Germany
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei underwent cranial surgery this week in Munich to treat lingering pain he's suffered since being punched by a Chengdu police officer last month. (He's posted pre- and post-surgery photos on his Twitter page.) Ai, who organized a campaign to tally student deaths in last year's Sichuan earthquake, was detained with other activists while in Chengdu to speak at the trial of Tan Zuoren. Tan, an editor and environmentalist who had recorded the deaths of students in collapsed schools, is charged with "inciting subversion of state power."
I spoke with Ai briefly this evening by phone and he said he was recovering well and "everything is fine." He decided to get a checkup after flying to Germany last week ahead of an opening of his work later this month. After the examination revealed internal bleeding, the doctors suggest he undergo surgery. Two insertions were made on the right side of his head, and 30 mL of fluid was removed, according to his Twitter page. Ai said he considered himself lucky because as a successful artist he had the means to seek treatment for his condition. "Millions of people have the same treatment from the police," he says. Those who can't afford expensive surgery "will have pain the rest of their life."
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I hope for his speedy recovery!
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Glad to know that "everything is fine". Ai wasn't beaten by the CCP thugs, of course. The Chinese government has denied that. So this treatment is all fake and unnecessary. And since no one was ever mistreated by Chinese police of CCP thugs, such treatment is never necessary for any Chinese, and therefore will never have "pain the rest of their life."
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it is sad that Han police can only beat Han. The Chinese police are more like the those running dogs of the late Qing dynasty.
It was said in a Qing period novel that "foerigners are afraid of people, people are afraid of the government, the government is afraid of foreigners"...
If China were a democracy, I will run and my slogan would be "Beat the hell out of enemy foreigners and traitors (Han Jian)".
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bylooker, can not agree more.
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Another Uighur got caught, pretending to be a traitor.
http://news.enorth.com.cn/system/2009/09/16/004201517.shtml
If he pokes others with a sharp object, he must be a Uighur. Telling others he is a Han must be a lie.
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"If China were a democracy, I will run..."
Dream on. China will never be a democracy. The Hans will keep the current system forever. Hans don't want human rights and democracy, and will never lift a finger to fight for it. It is the outside foreign shit disturbers like Sun Yat-sen, a well known traitor, and on arrest warrant for ages, who brought down the Qings against the wishes of the Hans. Democracy is only for people who want it and will risk their life fighting for it. Those who rather let others to make decisions for them should stay that way.
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@ js
China will develop into a democracy peacefully in her own style at herown pace. Your dream of 1.3 billion people engaging a civil war will never materialize. Chinese people are tired of endless revolutions.
Only blood thirsty animals will hope for civil wars in which Hans killing Hans.
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You know, ever since the crack down on dissidents and protesting students in 1989, the Chinese economy has boomed. And this justified and proofed that cracking down on dissidents and stopping anyone from voicing any alternative view are right for China, as it produced an economic boom
And so can cancer:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE58G00T20090917
Therefore, if China wants to continue its economic boom, this is a sure fire way to do so.
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"Your dream of 1.3 billion people engaging a civil war will never materialize."
Of course not. Hans don't have the guts and the spinal fortitude to raise a finger to get their own freedom. They enjoy being enslaved too much. And I wish they get what they want, and what they deserve.
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@js
呸。Hans are lot of smarter than blood thirsty stupid red neck who only has a black and white vision.
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I wonder if Obama is going to really press the CCP on democratic reform and human rights when he visits Bejing in November. Or will he just act like previous U.S. presidents and pay lip service to those issues? Oh well, trade is what really matters, right?
Here is an interesting China blog:
http://sublimeandbeautiful.wordpress.com/Check it out.
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What moral authority does US government have as the worst human rights violator?
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[...] 2009 September 20 tags: contemporary, Qianlong, roundup, sales by Kristina *Ai Weiwei underwent surgery in Germany this week for injuries sustained in a dust-up in Chengdu last month. He seems to have [...]
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Speedy recovery. Just hang in there. China needs more people with your guts. Do not give up: NEVER!
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