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Ending Presidential Term Limits: 1.3 Billion Chinese “Unanimously Agree”

(Ms. Huang and the video she posted online in China. The photo was cited from social media @minshengguancha)

“One Sunday morning, when the animals assembled to receive their orders, Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. … The four young pigs who had protested … were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. … Napoleon … announced that he had already made all the arrangements.” (George Orwell, Animal […]

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What’s in a Name

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 […]