Montegriffo wrote:Away with you and your nuances Vik. Black and white thinking only around here.Viktorthepirate wrote:In the specific context I meant us to the mean the U.S. but really it could mean anybody.Hwen Hoshino wrote: I do not know what you mean by us. If it is the US China is nothing like it.
We have more in common with the Chinese than say India (been to both).
And I wouldn't say nothing. Plenty different but plenty the same. The governments are quite different but functioning as an adult in either society is not like living in an alien world.
Lolz - Your attempt at a quip evidences why England is irrelevant.
Yeah - China is just like us...:rollyeyes:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/china-hands-d ... 55698.html
Before his arrest, Wu used his platform to cast doubt on the official version of events in an incident in early May 2015, in which a police officer shot a petitioner in a train station in northern Heilongjiang province.
Wu's refusal to bow to pressure or admit guilt likely explains his harsh sentence, said Kit Chan, Hong Kong-based director of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group.
"Wu Gan is being punished for his non-conformity," she said.
His sentence is the most severe in what rights groups have called an unprecedented attack on China's rights activists and lawyers, known as the 709 crackdown, which began in full force on July 9, 2015.
*Well, maybe China is like the DNC - they both love cracking down on free speech....got to maintain the party line and all - you know...
