Lawyer’s Detention Shakes China’s Rights Movement
• NY TimesChina’s
nascent legal rights movement, already reeling from a crackdown on
crusading lawyers, the kidnapping of defense witnesses and the
shuttering of a prominent legal clinic, has been shaken by the
detention of a widely respected rights defender who has been
incommunicado since the police led him away from his apartment 12 days
ago.
China is resembling the US more and more...or vice versa, perhaps?
China in some ways is getting better. "Progressive" and "liberalization" are good things in a communist regime.
Sinophiles, people that have contact with or interest in ordinary Chinese life or history end up with an abiding faith in the ability of the Chinese people to shake off oppression. Periodic, radical change is endemic, it seems, to Chinese culture.