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One of the lines, a veiled threat to his safety:
> We are worried that this type of inner-Party power struggle may also bring risks to the personal safety of you and your family.
Wasnt China getting better about things like this for a while there? What happened?
China had a period of greater international exposure leading up to and then after the olympics so they naturally took a less aggressive approach - think house arrest rather than re-education camp.
In addition, compared to Mao and the actions of the Politburo during and after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, almost everything looks 'better'.
The CCP is trying to walk a tightrope between a stronger role in a globalised world and running the sort of insular police state which is its bread and butter. This sort of thing does leak out from time to time, but for every report which meets the outside world, there are others which don't catch the media's attention.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/ch...
We are still getting cheap manufacturing there - so don't expect any support from the US govt
China angered by Hillary Clinton tweet on women's rights http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34377406
"Mr Xi has come under fire for hosting the summit as several women's rights activists were held earlier this year for planning a demonstration against sexual harassment on public transport."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's worse than that. They had an argument, she blocked him then felt harassed when she logged out and searched his tweets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott >because Guthrie continued to respond to Elliott's tweets, the judge said Elliott didn't know he was harassing her, even though he knew she had blocked his account. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/twitter-harassmen...
> Elliott is believed to be the first Canadian prosecuted solely for tweets Oh wow, thats horrific. I am not sure what is worse; being "taken away" for posting a letter to the president in a communist country or actually going to jail in a democracy for sending tweets.
We're going to see more of this behavior as their economy continues to tank. They're solving a real problem -- how do you explain to 500 million poor people why the gaokao is stacked to stop them moving up?
At least china has a solution. Every large & diverse country is going to be facing this problem within a decade. Rich people are going to have access to some really awesome stuff (VR video games, 10x adderall, stem cell plastic surgery -- you name it) and it won't be a meritocracy.
Crappy rule of law sucks for activists but it's awesome for the construction industry. Anytime you're stuck in traffic next to highway construction in the west, just imagine the chinese coming in with a cement truck and finishing the project overnight. We're going to see more of this behavior as their economy continues to tank. They're solving a real problem -- how do you explain to 500 million poor people why the ga…
The govt legitimizes its actions by offering improved living standards for everyone.
> The Chinese government has consistently and strongly denied any complicity in human rights abuses, but says those who break the law must be punished. The Chinese government wouldn't know what a human rights abuse was if one waterboarded it in the face.
Yea its not like they are lifting millions out of poverty every year.
Disney will threaten to stop filming in Georgia over an anti-LGBT law. But they will gladly enter a business partnership with the communist Chinese government to build a theme park.