Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): When dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng escaped extra-legal house arrest to make his way to the U.S. Embassy, he became “an instant hero” on the Chinese Internet, writes Perry Link, co-editor of The Tiananmen Papers : How had he escaped

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Who really speaks for China? Wei Jingsheng, Yu Jie, Fang Lizhi, Chen Guangcheng…





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