From ChinaView.cn: ” Powerful arguments over the possibility of abolishing the death penalty in China have been voiced following the academic conference “the International Symposium on the Death Pnalty” held last month at Xiangtan in Hunan province. Legal experts at the conference argued that China would need to limit the use of capital punishment when […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: “Opium has always been associated, for better or worse, with China. And almost invariably it’s been for the worse. The myth, in both the Christian West and the communist East, has been that this pernicious substance was brought to the Celestial Empire by the perfidious British, forced onto a gullible people, […]
Read MoreThe Globe and Mail has published a special edition that focuses almost entirely on China and includes articles about modern Shanghai, migrant workers, the environment, China’s spiritual vacuum, sex, drugs, and...
Read More(This article is translated by FBIS. ) The mouthpiece of the party tells the whole world: Now is the time “when China’s human rights condition is at its best…” This is a blessing for the Chinese people. I wish this were true. I hope all my compatriots have human rights: the right to know light […]
Read MoreFrom movies, fashions to pop music, mainland Chinese have for decades taken cues from their more affluent and cosmopolitan Hong Kong cousins. A new editorial in the Asian Wall Street Journal suggested that the Chinese may now be able to copy another formerly unlikely trend in their fast changing society: civil liberty.
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