The Globe and Mail: Chinese leader still a mystery The President's latest crackdown on dissent has included the arrest of writers and journalists, tougher controls on the Internet, tighter police surveillance of activists, a clampdown on non-governmental organizations, forced propaganda education classes and verbal attacks on the 'bourgeois' system of Western democracy.
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Niagra Falls visit
There is little else for me to blog about now -- as I'm booked for a flight over the Pacific next month.
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More from that article: Rather than embracing Gorbachev-style reforms, Mr. Hu has moved in the opposite direction, explicitly rejecting the path taken by the Soviet Union in the 1980s. According to a report in a Hong Kong magazine, he believes that China must prevent Western democratic ideas from infiltrating the Chinese media if it wants to avoid the fate of the former Soviet Union.
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The President's latest crackdown on dissent has included the arrest of writers and journalists, tougher controls on the Internet, tighter police surveillance of activists, a clampdown on non-governmental organizations, forced propaganda education classes and verbal attacks on the "bourgeois" system of Western democracy.
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