Chinese Internet writer sentenced to 12 years

Society Pakistan & World Affairs
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Will the Chinese apologists please voice in.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese Internet writer was jailed for 12 years on Tuesday for "subversion of state power" after backing a movement by exiled dissidents to hold free elections, his lawyer said.
 
Yang Tianshui, 45, who has been in custody since last December, did not plan to appeal, a protest against a trial he felt was illegal, his lawyer, Li Jianqiang, said.
 
"We expected the result, but we are still dissatisfied because he is innocent," Li told Reuters.
 
It was one of the heaviest prison terms meted out in recent years to an Internet writer. Writer Shi Tao was sentenced last April to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets abroad. 
 
Yang is one of several Internet writers and journalists being tried this month, amid what analysts say is a tightening of controls on media and freedom of expression....
 
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All hail great China.

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All hail the great nations who buy cheap goods from them as I expect them to stop all trade with such a repressive regime. After all the spread of human rights and democracy is more important than buying cheap goods. Will it happen?

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Are you kidding? You can barely get the world to agree that nuclear weapons are bad.

The Chinese government will fall in good time. How long can an educated populice stand not having free and fair elections? Once that seed is planted, it will grow. Give it time.

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since China holds a significant majority of the worthless pieces of paper we all call our money, better watch what you say against them..

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and exactly what are they going to do with those dollars and dollar-denominated assets?

dump them and destroy their own economy out of spite for the US?

i don’t think so.

btw…i don’t know what you meant by “significant majority”, but that obviously isn’t true.

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According to Samuel Huntingdon’s Clash of Civilisations (my bible of global geopolitical affairs) that will not happen. Huntingdon offers the proposition that Asian countries such as China and Singapore are showing that the conventional wisdom of liberal democracy being the only form of government for long-term success may be incorrect.

China’s government is expecting that people will see personal wealth and national pride as an acceptable alternative to freedom. So far, it seems to be working.

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They would! if they were some mad Iranian mullahs.

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they are in the process right now.. "diversifying" their dollar holdings.. no one wants to hold onto a currency that's losing it's value everyday.

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btw...i don't know what you meant by "significant majority", but that obviously isn't true.
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well you need to read up a bit.. China is second only to Japan when it comes to the holding our debt.

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I'm not sure what this has to do with an activist being confined. Anyhow, your faulty analysis not withstanding, why would China try to hurt it's biggest trading partner? Perhaps this is a Pakistani wet dream, but it is just that..a dream.

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faulty? prove it wrong.. you’re the one who doesn’t know China holds a significant majority of our debt.

They don’t have to hurt their trading partner, only look out for themselves. They won’t want to save in a depreciating curency. There is nothing Pakistani about it, but then u Indians are obsessed with us so carry on :hehe: