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Some fear that Xu and his fellow activists in the New Citizens Movement had formed an “anti-CCP clique”.
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Xu Zhiyong tried to change China from the inside, but now he will be tried by the inside.
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China: How Much Dissent?
from New York Review of Books
In the year 278 BC an aristocrat and poet named Qu Yuan took his own life by throwing himself into the waters of the Milo River. Qu Yuan had once been the powerful adviser to the ruler of the Chu kingdom, specializing in legal affairs and diplomacy...