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Fang Lizhi talks about the hope for democracy on the mainland and advises the young that the march toward freedom can be a long...
First there were the magazines from East Germany. World Marxist Review and Radio Berlin magazine flooded my mailbox. Next a huge package arrived from Radio Beijing complete with expensive handmade origami cuttings depicting "friendship pandas," large banners with scenes from mainland China and a wall calendar that I think I saw recently in my local Chinese restaurant...
Though both the U.S. and Hong Kong would have suffered greater financial losses than China if MFN status had not been renewed, Beijing can ill afford the estimated $3 billion or more that revocation would have cost mainland enterprises. Despite the success of a stringent austerity program in cooling the overheated economy and cutting inflation from 18% last year to less than 5% today, there have been debilitating side effects. The suspension or reduction in production in as many as one-third of Chinese factories and the ( cancellation of hundreds of construction projects have contributed to a "floating population...
With his handsome face and suave demeanor, Wuer Kaixi was the obvious choice as poster boy of the overseas democracy movement after he escaped from the mainland nearly a year ago. Since then, however, the young dissident has lost some of his hero's aura, and his rumored peccadilloes -- spending dissident funds on a lavish lobster dinner, faking illness during press conferences to avoid tough questions, and hyperinflating the number of students killed last year -- have been well chronicled in the press. But he is the wiser for it. "It was hard, but that's what press freedom...
...class section. The cockpit crew thought they were VIPs, but as soon as the plane was in the air, the passengers began shredding the fake British Hong Kong passports that had got them this far and took turns flushing the illegal documents down the toilets. Upon arrival, the passengers -- mainland Chinese citizens who had paid as much as $20,000 each for their journey to freedom -- pleaded for refugee status to immigration agents, who promptly arrested them. Never before had so many illegal aliens been nabbed trying to enter Canada in such grand style...