How a handful of unknown Chinese martyrs aided the cause of freedom around the world. Back in January 2010, Secretary of State Clinton gave a pay-any-price, bear-any-burden address calling for the liberation of the global Internet. The price Washington was willing to pay? It promised $50 million to groups developing “new tools that enable citizens […]
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It’s hard to do no evil when you work with the Chinese regime. Western corporations never die in China, they just fade away. They don’t do what Google has threatened to do: Slam the door on its way out. Google’s decision to stop censoring its Chinese search engine—announced on the company’s blog on January 12 […]
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Are the Chinese people alone now? Over the last three weeks, the Obama administration has sent three clear signals to the Chinese leadership. First came the news that Chas Freeman would chair the National Intelligence Council. The former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and an adviser to CNOOC (the state-owned Chinese oil company), Freeman clearly […]
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Bangkok The jeepney driver sizes us up the minute we climb in. My research assistant is a healthy, young Israeli dude, so I must be the one with the money. He addresses his broken English to me: “Girl?” No. No girls. Take us to the … “Ladyboy? Kickboxer?” No. No ladyboy, no kickboxer, thanks. I […]
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Skip the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, Mr. President. London It was my four-year-old son’s first demonstration. But he was getting cold, the police were manhandling the Tibetans to the point that there might be a stampede, and I wasn’t sure if the bus that had just rushed by at such an unseemly speed […]
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Is Beijing committing atrocities against the Falun Gong movement? WANG WENYI, the woman whose shouts disrupted the welcoming ceremony for Chinese president Hu Jintao on the White House lawn on April 20, is a middle-aged pathologist and a follower of Falun Gong. That spiritual movement was outlawed in China in 1999, and since then Falun […]
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Without U.S. assistance, it will remain a tool of the Beijing government, not a force for democracy. BEIJING It’s not easy being the father of the Chinese Internet. Children are running by, boats are paddling, the smell of roast lamb fills the air, and Michael Robinson, a young American computer engineer, sits rigidly, facing an […]
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What I Saw at the American Embassy in Beijing. Beijing, China Saturday, May 8 — I really wasn’t in the mood to go to the “happening,” a modern art show, but my wife insisted. So we began pedaling to a gallery in a hidden courtyard just west of the Forbidden City. As we rode side […]
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