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Kennedy School of Government alum and detained pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli shared his decision to seek medical parole from the Chinese government during his first-ever interview with relatives on Tuesday...
...Yang, 41, had been in good health before his arrest in April 2002, according to his wife Christina X. Fu, who is a Harvard Medical School researcher. On July 31, he suffered a stroke, she said...
...Yang, who was banned from China after he participated in the 1989 Tianamen Square demonstrations, was arrested in April 2002 on charges of espionage and illegal entry to China. Last May, he received a five-year prison sentence but chose not to appeal the Chinese court’s decision...
...Squeezed in China, Lenovo finally began talks with IBM, and an all-night negotiating session ended last Wednesday morning when the head of the Lenovo team sent a text message reading, "Everything is O.K.," to CEO Yang Yuanqing. Yang quickly approved a deal that gives Lenovo ownership of one of the world's most trusted brands. For the next 18 months, household-name products like ThinkPad will carry IBM's name. After that they'll switch to both the Lenovo and IBM brands, and in five years "there will be no more IBM personal computers," says Yang, who will leave...
...That enraged Beijing, worried the U.S.?Taipei's main backer, but which also enjoys good relations with China?and seems to have backfired with the electorate. "Chen actually stimulated the pan-blue supporters to come out and vote because they worried about his getting a double mandate," says Philip Yang, a professor of political science at National Taiwan University in Taipei...