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...visiting inspectors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 10,000 members of the Falun Gong religious movement wasted in prisons for the crime of practicing their beliefs. One hundred fifty of the movement’s leaders have already died in police custody. Meanwhile, China continues to try its citizens in lightning-fast court proceedings, executing them for minor offenses like tax evasion and afterwards harvesting their organs without donor consent. Forced labor is common. Tibetans remain oppressed. And hitting closer to home, the Chinese Ministry of State Security has recently detained a string of Western scholars, one of whom...
...White seems to encourage. He is part and parcel of the beatnik, man-loving-man, pinko plague that has taken to our streets and children. My anger is without bound, even in this age of limits and delimitations. These limits and delimitations are all that separates man from beast, citizen from barbarian, and good from evil. I am fortunate that in this new century we are able to escape the scourges of moral blackness in the American men of past war torn decades...
...host the 2008 Summer Games. China has a history of timing the release of prominent prisoners to the political calendar. In 1995, it paved the way for First Lady Hillary Clinton to attend a United Nations conference in Beijing by freeing human rights activist and U.S. citizen Harry Wu. Two years later it freed dissident Wei Jingsheng just as President Clinton prepared his own trip. A last-second release of Li or Gao?or both?could give Washington political cover from the anti-China lobby to make the decisions Beijing wants...
...move, leaving her homeland to further her career but retaining a strong connection to her Spanish roots. Cruz identifies Spain as her home - she's one of three children of a hairdresser mama and a retailer papa and grew up in Madrid - but she calls herself a "citizen of the world...
...Chinese nationals awaiting their swearing-in ceremony as U.S. citizens. But Andrew was born in America, and is already a citizen. His detention, therefore, violated a consular agreement between the U.S. and China to inform each other of citizens' detentions within four days. That explains part of the U.S. outrage. But the case, at least the fourth in the past six years, gave the Bush Administration a welcome chance to put teeth into its proclaimed interest in human rights...