Nicholas Kristof has an interesting article on how he tried to applied to stage a protest during the Olympic Games in Beijing. I am not sure that Chinese citizens would have as easy a go of it as he did, although he acknowledges this.
I’d like to believe what he says in the end, that China will ” become more open and less repressive — not because of the government’s kindness but because of the people’s insistence.” This will be good for the people of China and China itself.
For more on the story, see this.
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