Peking University law professor He Weifang is on a lecture tour in the U.S. I heard him when he spoke recently at the Winston Lord Roundtable at the Council on Foreign Relations. A fuller presentation of his views can be seen HERE in a C-Span broadcast at which he was joined by Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.
He is a signer of Charter 08, the liberal manifesto which landed Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in prison. He openly urges the Chinese CP become like a European Social Democratic party. I don't know why one is behind bars and the other behind a podium. I do see that there is a fragile peace in China - that advocacy of western legal democracy is hazardous to one's career, at least.
He is a signer of Charter 08, the liberal manifesto which landed Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in prison. He openly urges the Chinese CP become like a European Social Democratic party. I don't know why one is behind bars and the other behind a podium. I do see that there is a fragile peace in China - that advocacy of western legal democracy is hazardous to one's career, at least.
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