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...Monday’s editorial, “A Premier Opportunity,” the Staff asserted that University President Lawrence H. Summers has done nothing to advocate for the release of Kennedy School of Government graduate Yang Jianli from a Chinese prison. In fact, Summers has actively pushed for Yang’s release. In a May 2002 trip to China, Summers raised the issue in closed-door meetings with both Chinese and American officials, according to a source familiar with the trip. Additionally, in an Oct. 19, 2002 letter to Ambassador of the People’s Republic...
...40th birthday recently, Chinese pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli languished in a Chinese prison. That same day, his wife, Harvard Medical School researcher Christina Fu, and their two young children, Aaron and Anita, spent over an hour outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade a faceless security guard—through locked doors, closed curtains and a small speaker—to accept a hand-drawn birthday card to deliver to him in prison. Their quest ended in vain. For the Yang family, this experience was a sad illustration of the opaque approach that the Chinese authorities...
Most importantly, Summers has to push Wen to release Yang Jianli, a 1995 graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, now languishing in a Chinese prison. Yang is an unapologetic democracy activist, and the Chinese authorities threw dubious espionage charges his way after he entered the country with fake papers a year-and-a-half ago. And even though Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and a number of other Washington politicians have called for Yang’s release—including forceful letters from members of Congress sent to President Bush and Premier Wen last week?...
...Yang Jianli, a former Kennedy School graduate student and pro-democracy activist, was arrested for entering China under false documents in April 2002. He was tried this past August but has not been sentenced...
...pressuring lenders to improve their risk-assessment practices?and urging deadbeats to pay up. In mid-November, the Finance Ministry suggested that companies looking to hire new workers should deny employment to job seekers with a bad credit history. "People who don't pay should be punished," says Byeon Yang Ho, the ministry's director of financial policy...