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Chinese Pressure On Liu Xiaobo Death Anniversary

This week brought both the first anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, and the sudden release from house arrest of his widow, Liu Xia. If the latter was in part a coalition-building maneuver by China in its mounting trade conflict with the United States, it was also the product of concerted popular and political pressure, most notably from the German government. At Foreign Policy, Amnesty International’s Patrick Poon argues that Liu’s release