Word: jingsheng
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise to a ruling circle determined to hang on to power. For the past few months, the government has been dealing harshly with political critics, imprisoning leading domestic dissidents, preventing opposition groups from organizing, blacklisting overseas dissidents to bar their return. Last year long-term activist Wei Jingsheng was rearrested, and just last month nine democratic opponents were given substantial prison sentences for attempting to organize human-rights and labor groups two years...
...China relations threatened to worsen as China announced it was considering bringing new criminal charges against prominent dissident Wei Jingsheng, who was detained last week. Later another well-known dissident, Xu Wenli, was taken into custody by police...
Three days after Wei Jingsheng, China's leading dissident, completed his parole term, police detained him as he was returning to Beijing from nearby Tianjin. Since his release from prison last September, after serving all but six months of his 15-year sentence for his advocacy of democracy and human rights, Wei had continued his campaign, infuriating the Chinese government. Wei's detention, his second in a month, could further strain U.S.-Sino relations, which have deteriorated over the issue of human rights...
...that the hammer of MFN, rather than beating China into submission on human rights (not likely in any case), could deal a serious blow to its movement toward democracy. That fact is hard to face in light of such events as the detention last week of dissident Wei Jingsheng, but it is nevertheless a fact. Like Vietnam, China is setting loose an economic system in which individual effort will yield individual rewards, and it is the commonest truth of Western development that such a system creates the best conditions for individual liberties. Given our heritage and beliefs, America is obliged...
...didn't know is that the advance foray by one of his deputies that so irritated the Chinese was carried out without Christopher's knowledge. The Secretary was unaware that John Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, was meeting a week earlier with Chinese dissident leader Wei Jingsheng. The U.S. embassy arranged the visit at the last minute and expected Wei to keep it secret...