Ai Weiwei
Most discouraging to those of us who are fighting for increased freedom is the tendency for developed nations to lower the bar to please China. They make excuses not to concern themselves with violations of human rights. To espouse universal values and then blind oneself to China’s active hostility to those values is irresponsible and naïve.
When American officials come to China with a pretty smile and the soft tone of a so-called “friendly gesture,” this only tells us how fragile and vulnerable these moral standards can be. It makes the people still in the struggle feel disappointed.
Wall Street Journal Article
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