From AP:
This week’s resumption of U.S.-China human rights talks after two years will spotlight what critics say is a deterioration in Beijing’s record on legal protections, free speech and civil society.
To Liu Xia, whose author-dissident husband is serving an 11-year prison sentence on subversion charges, such attention can only be a good thing.
“I only see benefits and no downside,” said Liu, who has repeatedly been refused permission to see her husband, Liu Xiaobo, since his Dec. 25 sentencing. “At least the authorities won’t do anything too outlandish since they’ll be under pressure.”
