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Communist China and Google
Steve Hayward offers this comment on the controversy between Google and the Communist authorities in China over on the Ashbrook Center blog “No Left Turns.” We now may see a…
Tiananmen Square
public square in Beijing, China
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Raleigh city council member to go on China junket
Reports the News & Observer: City Council member Mary Ann Baldwin used $1,800 of her campaign war chest to pay for a forthcoming trip to China with the Greater Raleigh…
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Hope vs oppression
Twenty years ago today, tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square and crushed, literally and figuratively, the protesters who had gathered for weeks demanding more openness. The next day, a lone man…
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Interesting use of the ?conservatives are bad? template
The latest TIME includes a piece that takes familiar pot shots at conservatives: The priority of the party’s leaders ultimately wasn’t to suppress a rebellion but to settle a power…
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Glad I don’t have tickets to this Olympics
Death reports as Chinese police open fire on monks and nuns Now it’s clear why there’s going to be no live TV allowed in Tienanmen Square.
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Re: Can free markets lead to democracy?
It is refreshing when someone is able to navigate all of the subtleties of an argument as both Minxin Pei and Ellen Bork have managed. Even the countries that have…
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Mixed t-shirt messages
How does one man support both the “unknown rebel” in Tiananmen Square and the exporter of socialist revolutions?
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Hu’s Fighting Back
Chinese President Hu Jintao is clamping down on civil liberties to preserve the Communist Party’s grip on power, according to the Washington Post. Taking his lessons from the collapse of…
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How American technology brought “new media” power to the Orange Revolution
Here’s a great article in The Wall Street Journal today. Its main subject is what author Daniel Henninger calls “the great white whale of the 21st century”: “American influence.” (If…