> book of documents relating to 20th century Kuomintang Party history. Wondering what book it may be.
KMT is related to Taiwan even though they want closer ties to CCP
They , KMT, lost to the CCP in the civil war and fled to Taiwan.
China's growing threat to academic freedom
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#14Stulta lex sed lex.
Summum Ius Summa Iniuria.
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#15Hardly a "growing threat" to academic freedom in a country that has never properly had it in the first place.
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#16This is disgusting. I felt sick just reading the headline. What an absolutely disgusting country.
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#17This is disgusting. I felt sick just reading the headline. What an absolutely disgusting country.
very visceral reaction there
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#18This is disgusting. I felt sick just reading the headline. What an absolutely disgusting country.
You got a bit of a bee in your bonnet about China judging from your comment history.
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#19Stulta lex sed lex.
Given that there's no list of forbidden books, nor any realistic way of determining beforehand whether a specific book would be considered detrimental to China's security or otherwise would be illegal, is it actually a law? I am inclined to contrast it to what it's like in my own country. Canada, of course like every country, has a variety of laws that prohibit certain kinds of expression. The difference is that, whi…
Maybe. I recall shortly after sept 11th 2001 when there was general panic in the US, some guy there was arrested for possessing a book. He'd just taken it out of the library.
Here in the UK there are deliberate 'chilling effect' laws which are meant to discourage trying something by making them sufficiently unspecified as to catch anything the government wants to (heard about these on the radio 4 programme 'file on 4', it was about export restrictions).
Western governments are vastly better but they can do the same filthy tricks when it suits them.
Re: China's growing threat to academic freedom
#20Hardly a "growing threat" to academic freedom in a country that has never properly had it in the first place.
It is a growing threat when that reach starts extending outside their boarders.