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… and greetings from Europe. You see, this is how it feels when your backyard is burning, and there is little you can do. This is how it felt when former Yugoslavia was burning, and the EU had to wait for the Americans to extinguish the fire.
If something like this should rise above your Eastern territorial border in the not-too-distant-future and you think it’s a sunrise, think again. No, I’m not talking about your embassy there…
Du Daozheng ( 杜导正), former editor-in-chief of Yanhuang Chunqiu ( 炎黄春秋), has reportedly withdrawn support for Prisoner of the State, the English version of Zhao Ziyang‘s memoirs which he originally helped to record. Meantime, Bao Tong (鲍彤), Zhao Ziyang’s Policy Secretary in the 1980s, is said to have been taken away from his home in Beijing for an “excursion” (which suggests that he may have been abducted, similar to other dissidents in the past).
Underthejacarandatree has a detailed post on recent events, based on various sources.
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Related:
Run-Up to June 4, May 15
Bao Tong: Beijing should explain how Charter 08 violates the Law, Asia News, Dec 17, 2008
