China is sparing no expense or inconvenience as it prepares to welcome the world for the Winter Olympics in February. But Xi Jinping’s increasingly aggressive regime is much less receptive to international movements which are less directly under its control.…
“If you had no other choice but to stick to China’s state media – and, given censorship, that is the case for quite a few people on the mainland – you might believe that protests in Hong Kong are entirely…
“Every inch of soil beneath my feet was red, shining under the frail winter sun, as if it had been soaked in blood.” (Liao Yiwu, while trekking a narrow mountain path in Yunnan.) God is Red is a collection of 18 loosely…