What’s the best course for the blind lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, and what can western countries do when human rights are violated? I take a skeptical look in this New York Review of Books blogpost.
Most attention has focused on the death of a British businessman as the trigger for China’s ongoing political, but in this article in the NYTa colleague and I posit that it was also due to leaders’ penchant for wiretapping each other.
If you’re interested in the destruction of Chinese culture, this interview with one of China’ top cultural bureaucrats might be of interest.
What do Bo Xilai and hibernating insects have in common. I try to figure this out in this blogpost in the New York Review of Books.
