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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...
...Li's detention is sure to roil already turbulent relations with the U.S., but could actually work to China's advantage: Beijing might be able to use the academics as bargaining chips in its dealings with Washington. The Bush administration will likely decide this month whether to sell an advanced early-warning radar system to Taiwan. China also needs U.S. support for its final push to join the World Trade Organization, and the International Olympic Committee will vote in July on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Summer Games. China has a history of timing the release of prominent...
...Li moved to the U.S. with the first wave of Chinese students in 1982, shortly after Beijing launched economic reforms. His Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton dealt with China's one-child policy. Li has a liberal pedigree: his father used his senior position in the Ministry of Propaganda to push reforms in the early 1980s, and Li himself delved into politics during the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement by writing articles from the U.S. on democracy and human rights. But that never stopped him from returning to China frequently, and in the past decade his research has focused on China...
...week's end, neither Beijing nor Washington had yet commented on Li's detention. But nobody expects the missing academic to disappear from the headlines...
...With the New Those earnest eyes, those wire-frame glasses, that smug deportment: for a while now Richard Li has been synonymous with all things new?media, economy, paradigms, whatever. Last year the boy in the cyberbubble won kudos for leveraging his essentially worthless assets?DigiScents? Network of the World? A phony Stanford degree??into one, very real telco when he paid $29 billion in stock and cash for Hong Kong Telecom. What nobody realized then was that this khaki-clad scion who embodied all the Web concepts people used to act like they believed in?does anyone remember Metcalf...