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"This is a new and interesting twist in a long, bizarre and extremely worrying saga," says Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch. Gao says he is now living on Wutai Mountain, the site of several dozen monasteries in China's central Shanxi province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chinese Dissident's Mysterious Reappearance | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

The committee goes further, with a call to jettison the term special relationship as ruthlessly as colonists once dumped tea into Boston Harbor. The expression was coined by no less a person than Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the intricate skeins of mutual interest, cultural heritage and sometimes gloopy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Britain's Affair with the U.S. Is Over | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Afghan officials suspect that Hekmatyar made his peace overture to Karzai only after getting a nod from the Pakistani military establishment. Pakistani officials are keen to demonstrate to the Obama Administration that reconciliation between Karzai and the insurgents can succeed, but only if Pakistan makes it happen. That may also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karzai Talks to the Enemy, but Is the U.S. On Board? | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

"Where is he? Under what kind of circumstances is he? Is he in jail? Is he in prison? Is he under some sort of house arrest?" asks Kine, the human-rights researcher. "It is a relief to learn that Gao Zhisheng appears to be alive and healthy enough to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chinese Dissident's Mysterious Reappearance | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Those question may be unanswered for some time. On Monday the mobile phone that Gao had briefly been answering over the weekend went dead, again severing his contact with the outside world.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chinese Dissident's Mysterious Reappearance | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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