Boston School Punishes Exchange Student For Advocating Democracy In China

Are Chinese "professional students" similarly punished for speaking on behalf of their evil political system?

UPDATE (Jun 11 / 2014): School superintendant / Chinese Communist Party hatchetman David Fleishman can't figure out what all the fuss is about.

Seven Unpeople At Taiwan’s China Post

Profiles of seven of China's most prominent political dissidents.

Oddly enough, there's never been much mention of them in the pages of the China Post – a paper which styles itself as Taiwan's "Chinese nationalist" newspaper.

Perhaps they ran all out of ink after printing David Kan Ting's numerous fawning columns about Communist princeling Bo Xilai…

Tiananmen Square Massacre

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Black and white photo of Chinese next to their bicycles after being crushed by tanks at Tiananmen Square.

Image of the Tiananmen Square Massacre from the New York Times

The New York Times has an interesting detail I was not aware of:

…top army commanders were summoned to headquarters to pledge their support for the use of military force to quash the protests.

One refused.

In a stunning rebuke to his superiors, Maj. Gen. Xu Qinxian, leader of the mighty 38th Group Army, said the protests were a political problem and should be settled through negotiations, not force, according to new accounts of his actions from researchers who interviewed him.

“I’d rather be beheaded than be a criminal in the eyes of history,” he told Yang Jisheng, a historian.

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How America Should Respond To Chinese Cyberspying

From Technology Review:

There’s still room for escalation. In the indictment they talk about the SOEs [state-owned enterprises] getting this stolen data but didn’t name them. But it’s pretty easy to figure out. These are massive, multibillion dollar companies in China. The next step could be to charge those SOEs. If you want to make an impact you go after the recipient of the information.

We Will Never Be Brothers

A poem by a young Ukrainian woman about the "fraternity" of Ukraine & Russia.

This is the best of the two translations I've seen:

We will never be brothers
Neither countrymen, nor blood brothers.
You don’t have the freedom breath –
We can’t be even stepbrothers.
You have called yourselves “elder brothers” –
We would like to be younger brothers, but not yours.
There’re so many of you, but you all are faceless.
You are huge, but we are great.
You press… you trudge,
You will choke on your envy.
You don’t know what freedom means,
You all are encased in chains from childhood up.
Silence is golden in your home,
And we burn Molotov cocktails,
Yes, there’s warm blood in our hearts,
What sort of blind “relatives” are you for us?
We all have fearless eyes,
We are dangerous without any weapons.
We grew up and became courageous
We all are at the shooters’ gunpoint.
We were forced to our knees by the hangmen –
But we revolted and corrected everything.
The rats are hiding and praying for nothing –
They will wash themselves with their blood.
You have new instructions –
And there’re revolt lights here.
You have your Tsar, but we have Democracy.
We will never be brothers.

"What is this doing on a blog mostly about Taiwan?" you might ask…