"The political jokes people tell each other in private represent the conscience of the silent majority, and show us ju…"

"Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is…"

"Freedom. Freedom is at the core of universal human values. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assemb…"

"China's post-totalitarian era has two distinguishing characteristics. First, the rulers still want desperately to hol…"

"Other than pleasure-seeking and consumerism, it seems that the only fruit of our social development is a cancerous ov…"

"In China's communist era, despite all of the rhetoric about internationalism and "liberation of mankind" during the M…"

"The worship of violence marks a reversion to barbarism for human civilization. This reversion happens most easily ins…"

"The nostalgia for Mao Zedong that we see in China today is in part a longing of the poor and downtrodden - the losers…"

"When a people like ours, who struggle with feelings of inferiority, have to face the facts of inadequate national str…"

""Ultra-nationalism" stands naked as nothing but a euphemism for the worship of violence in service of autocratic goal…"