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Church-State Clash in China Coalesces Around a Toppled Spire

Video | China Chafes at Christianity’s Growth As Christianity continues its rapid rise in China, some believers feel discriminated against by public policies and say that the government favors traditional Chinese religions.

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25 YEARS ON, NO FADING OF TIANANMEN WOUNDS, IDEALS

By LOUISE WATT and ISOLDA MORILLO

— May. 30, 2014 3:26 AM EDT

Tiananmen leader denied in bid to return to China
China: US must be objective about Asia tensions

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Tienchi Martin-Liao:Break the Besieged Fortress

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / February 26, 2014
China for activists: Once you’re in, you can’t get out, and once you’re out you can’t get in

Li Jianhong and Duoduo

Ms. Li Jianhong is pictured here with the Chinese poet Duoduo at the PEN-conference in Krakau, Polen in May 2013. Photo courtesy of Li Jianhong.
Friends and colleagues of the Chinese writer Li Jianhong could all breathe a little easier Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao: One Loses the People, Because He Loses Their Hearts

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / March 12, 2014 /

In which a Uyghur academic predicts his own disappearance.

Free Ilham Tohti


Image by Twitter user @HisOvalness.

He foresaw the outcome almost a year ago. In July of 2013, Ilham Tohti, Continue reading

Survivor recounts China’s Tiananmen Square ‘cover-up’

Oren Dorell, USA TODAY 7:48 p.m. EDT May 30, 2014


(Photo: Oren Dorell, USA TODAY)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Adam Chen’s life changed in Beijing on June 4, 1989, when he saw friends shot to death in what became known as the Tiananmen Square massacre. Thousands of people died that day, Continue reading

Detentions Continue as Tiananmen Anniversary Nears

Yet more detentions have been added to the dozens already carried out ahead of the 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown next week. From AP:

Wang Aizhong, a founder of the Southern Street Movement, which calls for an end to one-party rule, Continue reading

Lunch with the FT: Guo Jian

By Tom Mitchell
Now an artist creating work out of minced pork and litter, the former soldier and Tiananmen Square protester recalls the horrors of that night in Beijing 25 years ago. By Tom Mitchell


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Rename the street DC Chinese Embassy is located to ‘Liu Xiaobo Street’ urges @NancyPelosi /Rep. Frank Wolf


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