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Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix LVI 向何處去   ‘Where to from here?’ 向何處去, ‘Exploring every avenue’ 上下求索, ‘What’s to be done? 怎麼辦, ‘What is to be avoided and what is to be followed?’… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XL 我不相信   Two of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers were sentenced on Monday [10 April 2023] to 14 years and 12 years in prison, some of the lengthiest such sentences in recent years and an indication of how the space for expression has evaporated under China’s leader, Xi Jinping.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XXX 缺席 ‘The Chinese intelligentsia is missing in action!’ This sentiment is expressed by a small, disparate and embattled number of independent-minded individuals in the People’s Republic of China.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Chapter Three, Part II 旋 Communist Chinese politics are a lugubrious merry-go-round … and in order to appreciate fully the déjà-vu quality of its latest convolutions, you would need to have watched it revolve for half a century.… Read