Word: dissention
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...liberalism, Jiang will be forced to confront calls for democratic reform more than anywhere else on his U.S. tour. At Harvard, more than anywhere else, Jiang will be forced to see that in America, the right to free expression is not his alone. He will see how protest and dissent are voiced in a democratic society that respects personal freedoms...
...stems from the form and logic of a political system. This violence is used to cow the population into submission in order to support the system. In China this structural violence has taken the form of human rights abuses in a variety of guises meant to destroy any political dissent, free thought or understanding of personal freedom...
...shocked at reading the dissent to the Crimson staff editorial of Oct. 20 by Adam S. Hickey and Daniel M. Suleiman. Both claimed that they would stand for freedom, reason and truth. In fact the truth was not told...
China, under the leadership of Jiang, has already demonstrated that it is an aggressive nation willing to brutally crush any form of internal dissent. It has already attempted to use its military to stifle democracy in Taiwan. It sells ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons components to Iran and North Korea. If human rights as basic as the right to non-violent political expression without fear of imprisonment, torture and execution are not applicable across cultural boundaries, then it seems to me that it is impossible to act for moral reasons in any situation whatsoever...
Tuesday's staff editorial (Oct. 14) and the accompanying dissent are fine examples of the reckless demonization of China by well-meaning but ill-informed commentators. Although the Chinese leadership needs to be reminded that its conduct sometimes falls far short of what we call civilized behavior, to categorize President Jiang Zemin as "an evil man" and China as "a truly evil empire" smacks of over kill...