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USA or PRC?(Insider Report)
"Lately, I find myself worrying about my adopted country, the United States," wrote Chinese emigrant intellectual Liu Baifang in an October 26 Los Angeles Times opinion column. "I'm alarmed that dissent is increasingly less tolerated, and that those in power seem unable to resist trying to intimidate those who speak their minds. I grew up in the People's Republic of China [PRC], so I know how it is to live in a place where voicing opinions that differ from official orthodoxy can be dangerous, and 1 tear that model."
While America remains immeasurably freer than the totalitarian state he fled in 1977, Liu sees ominous signs that the American government "is veering toward the authoritarian world that speaks in one voice, the very political model it has so often stood against," he writes. One small but telling example he cites is President Bush's press conferences, which "seem to me to have become more and more like those held by the Chinese Communist Party: Nothing but the official line is given, and probing questions from ...
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