The Chinese government plans to launch the so-called Social Credit System in the country to evaluate the “trustworthiness” of each citizen. Meanwhile, it continues its surveillance of those deemed dangerous to the state.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao describes the tragic love story of two real-life Chinese human rights activists, separated by a cruel dictatorship, through their beautiful poetry.
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Tienchi Martin Liao bids farewell to Liu Xiaobo, an outspoken advocate for democracy and freedom of expression in China, who died a political prisoner on July 13, 2017.
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The West expressed outrage over the attacks on Charlie Hebdo’s freedom of expression, but has long stood idly by as China silences its dissenting voices.
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“Butchers know the art of slaughter, dictators the craft of suppression.” Tienchi Martin-Liao analyzes the repressive and successive regimes in China as well as the recent crackdowns surrounding the June 4 tragedy.
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For Chinese activists government restrictions on their rights to move and travel are clear: once you’re in, you can’t get out, and once you’re out you can’t get in. Tienchi Martin-Liao highlights the cases of Li Jianhong and others who have tried to break through the “besieged fortress”.
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Liu Xia, a poet and wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest since October 2010. In this video, secretly recorded in December, Liu reads two of her new works.
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