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...Chinese nationals awaiting their swearing-in ceremony as U.S. citizens. But Andrew was born in America, and is already a citizen. His detention, therefore, violated a consular agreement between the U.S. and China to inform each other of citizens' detentions within four days. That explains part of the U.S. outrage. But the case, at least the fourth in the past six years, gave the Bush Administration a welcome chance to put teeth into its proclaimed interest in human rights...
Suddenly, it seems like open season on American academics in China. Only days after Beijing accused a detained U.S.-based scholar of espionage, word broke last Friday of yet another being held without charges, this time a U.S. citizen. Li Shaomin, a 44-year-old widely published professor of business and a naturalized American since 1995, left his wife and daughter at their home in Hong Kong to visit a friend across the border in the economic boomtown of Shenzhen. That was Feb. 25, and he never got there. His frantic wife, Liu Yingli, rang the U.S. consulate, which assured...
...first-term Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, saying that she looked to Born as a mentor, said that she believes Born will continue to contribute to Cambridge--as a citizen...
...Hanoi insists that every citizen has the right to religion, pointing to its millions of worshipers. Phan Thi Lan Huong is one of them. Surrounded by clouds of incense, the 59-year-old grandmother clutches her hands in prayer in front of an altar ringed with painted Buddhas. She is one of up to 20,000 who flock each day to the Chua Huong Pagodas southwest of Hanoi during the pilgrimage season. "Of course we are free to worship," she says, blinking with surprise. "The government never stops us?just those who have bad practices...
...paradox is actually codified in Vietnam's laws: every citizen is guaranteed the right to worship, but "abuse of religious rights" is punishable by up to three years in prison. According to Zachary Abuza, a Vietnam expert at Simmonds College in the U.S., it is not individual faith that Hanoi opposes, but the prospect of a nationwide structure of authority that could topple the party's monopoly on power. Hanoi has thus appointed Vietnam's Catholic bishops since 1975, annoying the Vatican, which recently elevated an exiled Vietnamese bishop to cardinal. There are dissident priests in Vietnam, like Father...