I have to admit I was a little surprised that Google did not post any special doodle along its logo for what, in my view, is one of the most important days in the socio-political calendar. In 1991, the United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 the World Press Freedom Day or just World Press […]
I started writing blogs in 2014, after watching the news about a Chinese pastor in Henan Province who was arrested. The pastor was persecuted by the local government because his church was growing too fast and attracting way too many believers. Later, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for defending the property of […]
The street in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. will be renamed “Liu Xiaobo Plaza” if a new bill to that effect can be passed by Congress. This symbolic move is meant to honor a human rights activist, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was put in jail for years by the Chinese […]