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...Beijing's catchphrase for promoting social development along with economic expansion. "Party officials are in all earnestness trying to deal with labor abuses, environmental degradation and political corruption," says Dennis Driscoll, head of the CSR Research Center at Peking Law School. "Business is expected to do its part." Says Jia Feng, a vice director at the State Environmental Protection Administration: "This is not just a Western concern anymore. It's about China's future...
...Jia, 32, a political activist who has been in and out of detention and house arrest for his views on topics such as the government's AIDS policy and Tibet, gives a quiet smile when reminded of the promises that the Olympics would advance the cause of human rights. Hu still gets a police escort when he goes outside, though the only visible guard on his fourth-story walk-up apartment in Beijing's eastern suburbs asks politely for accreditation, laboriously records the details, then waves visitors in with a smile. That smiling face, Hu says, is the one that...
...country, warning that the detention of dissidents, harassment of lawyers and restrictions on domestic media could tarnish the legacy of the Beijing Games. For their part, dissidents within China say they welcome the attention the Games will bring. "I like to have people from outside come," says Hu Jia, an AIDS and human rights activist. "We want the world to know the pressure we are under...
...Jia's fourth-floor walk-up apartment, we were introduced to Yuan, who was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of her husband. She explained that she was afraid that he might be beaten again in prison or receive some other punishment. The authorities were angry with him because of his refusal to acknowledge he was a criminal. Chen was convicted of damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic, charges he denies. The court that sentenced him is controlled by the same Communist Party officials whom he had embarrassed with his revelations about their overzealous enforcement...
...closer, conditions would ease for dissidents as Beijing tried to show its best face to the world. But with a year to go before the Games, China's Communist leaders have shown no intention of easing up. "It's a policy of 'soft to the outside, strict within,'" Hu Jia told TIME. He warned, too, that once the Olympics were over, things would really get bad for activists. "I have already been warned by a policeman. He said, 'You are very lively right now aren't you? Just wait. There'll be a settling of accounts after the Games...