Sharon Hom of Human Rights in China warns: “By suppressing Xu Zhiyong, who is a moderate voice for social change and has dedicated his career to helping forge a society with genuine rule of law, the authorities are running the risk of radicalizing the forces for reform and change in China.” (http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/08/dark-days-for-chinas-liberals.html).
The human rights defenders movement simply attempts to ensure that Chinese citizens enjoy the rights extended to them by China's National Constitution. The suppression of the high-minded lawyers involved in this low paying and risky work is a function of the sort of venal hypocrisy that one hopes will cease to be a feature of Chinese politics in the near future.
Is it likely that this "venal hypocrisy" as you put it will cease to be a feature of Chinese politics in the near future? Not so near future?
ReplyDeleteI have been predicting the imminent phasing out of "venal hypocrisy" in Chinese politics for over 30 years now. But I continue to be confident as in the words of the late Sam Cooke:
ReplyDelete"It's been a long, been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will."