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A Call for Attention to Chinese Repression

At The Nation, Rian Thum and Jeffrey Wasserstrom write that people in the West "should pay more attention to Beijing’s repressive actions" such as its treatment of the late Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife, Liu Xia, its construction of re-education camps in Xinjiang, its erosion of freedom in Hong Kong, and its constriction of space for dissent or even mere disrespect. Paying attention to events in China, even as other world news clamors for attention,