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The crackdown on Kirti Monastery in Sichuan has intensified when two people were killed in a government raid, AFP reports: Authorities have sealed off Kirti Monastery in Sichuan province and ordered a re-education programme...
Read MoreOfficials from China and the U.S. will meet to discuss human rights next week in Beijing, but Washington’s announcement of the talks indicates that they may not be routine. The New York Times reports: According to a...
Read MoreBeijing-based writer and former Wall Street Journal bureau chief Ian Johnson writes on the New York Review of Books blog about Ai Weiwei and the response to his activism inside China: There’s no doubt that in recent years...
Read MoreCharges against lawyer Li Zhuang, who was accused of falsifying evidence while defending a gangster in the Chongqing corruption crackdown have been dropped. From the New York Times: Li Zhuang, 50, a criminal lawyer from Beijing,...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports on the clever ways Chinese netizens get around Internet censorship: But as fast as the government blocks words, phrases, websites and servers, Chinese Internet users figure out how to share...
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