O OCIDENTE NÃO REAGE À REPRESSÃO CHINESA

«CHINA’S COMMUNIST RULERS are ringing out December in a flurry of paranoia and repression, a fitting coda to a year of steadily decreasing tolerance for open dissent and discussion. On Friday, authorities sentenced Chen Wei to nine years in prison. Mr. Chen's “crime was heinous, and influence vile,” the judge declared. And what was his crime? Writing essays. Because he advocated democracy — and has done so since he was first imprisoned for his role in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 — a judge found Mr. Chen guilty of “inciting subversion.”» The Washington Post