We'll Decide Your Crime

Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, a sharp critic of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party, was taken away by police in Beijing July 6 after police in far away Sichuan province accused him of seeking prostitutes. Friends dismissed the vice allegations as a timeworn trick used by ruling party to sully the reputation of critics like Xu, who had just published a collection of his trenchant essays outside China.
2020-07-08
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Meanwhile, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party engages in all sorts of thuggery, immorality, graft, corruption, and any and every sort of illicit activity. Or, as the Talking Heads put it: "same as it ever was".

Jul 08, 2020 04:28 PM

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