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China is entering on its darkest period since the 1970's. Its meteoric economic progress is practically meaningless now when set alongside the backwardness of the CCP's tight restrictions on civic life and the unjust war it is waging more and more flagrantly on the free enjoyment of fundamental human rights.
The fearlessness of the few Chinese people like Xu Yan and Yu Wensheng whose humanity doesn't permit them to remain silent in the face of gross abuses of power is really the only ray of hope that China still has the seeds of meaningful and much needed social reform within its own population.
Meanwhile, with the despot Xi firmly at the helm and likely to remain there for an indefinite span, the coming into being of certain dystopian nightmares famously shadowed forth in 20th century fiction edges ever closer, not just for China but for all of us.
Apr 02, 2018 10:08 PM
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