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Murong Xuecun: A Land China Loves and Hates

murong-xuecun-contrib-thumbWideOCT. 13, 2015

HONG KONG — On the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a major Chinese television network broadcast a documentary that investigated how Chinese people viewed not only those pivotal events but America itself. One man, referring to the slaughter of thousands of Americans, declared, “What a beautiful job!” Another said, “They should give America more of the same.” And a student standing in Tiananmen Square said he approved of the attacks because the United States was a bully and a hegemon.

Later in the film, the young man in Tiananmen Square went on Continue reading

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power:Remarks at the Internet Freedom Technology Showcase

Remarks at the Internet Freedom Technology Showcase: The Future of Human Rights Online, City University of New York Graduate Center

Ambassador Samantha Power

U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

U.S. Mission to the United Nations

New York City
September 26, 2015

AS DELIVERED

Hi everybody. And could we have a better or more determined Assistant Secretary for Human Rights representing the United States of America? His Yankees unfortunately do appear destined for Continue reading

Rights protesters, China supporters greet President Xi in Seattle

 

Technology | Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:31pm EDT

 

SEATTLE | BY ERIC M. JOHNSON AND DAVID RYDER

Practitioners of Falun Gong, who say the religious movement is persecuted in China, protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle, Washington, September 22, 2015. REUTERS/David Ryder

Practitioners of Falun Gong, who say the religious movement is persecuted in China, protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle, Washington, September 22, 2015. REUTERS/David Ryder

Practitioners of Falun Gong, who say the religious movement is persecuted in China, protest the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle, Washington, September 22, 2015.
REUTERS/DAVID RYDER

About 100 people protesting against human rights abuses in China greeted President Xi Jinping in Seattle on Tuesday, in what is likely to be the first of a series of demonstrations against China’s leader during his week-long U.S. visit.

In downtown Seattle, a crowd supporting Falun Gong, a religious Continue reading

The Chair of U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission Wrote A Letter To Xi Jinping

June 4, 2015

His Excellency Xi Jinping
President of the People’s Republic of China

Dear President Xi:

We write as co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China on the 26th- year anniversary of the nationwide protests that started in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The protests, their violent suppression, and the ongoing prohibition of public or online discussion of the events of 1989, Continue reading