The letter below to Reporters Without Borders (RSF, Reporters Sans Frontiers) was sent in response to their online biography of literary critic Liu Xiaobo written by translator Jean-Phillipe Beja.
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“We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population… In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will
BEIJING—“The Sacred Yuan and Gunboat Diplomacy: In March and early April [2010], there was much sound and fury at the White House about China’s currency, the yuan, being undervalued, and so giving Chinese exporters an…
Yesterday, October 8, 2010, the once globally-respected Nobel Peace Award made another serious self-inflicting insult and disgrace to its still, in a sense, honorable name by awarding Mr. Liu Xiaobo, a so-called “Chinese dissident,” the…