neo-fascism – The Foreigner in Formosa

All Within The State, Nothing Outside The State, Nothing Against The State

The Chinese Communist Party's persecution of civic groups (including an independent rural library association)

The CCP's must be a pretty insecure lot if they're that afraid of librarians.

Schadenfreude Alert

Try to suppress that shameful feeling of pleasure at another's misfortune. Might be tough, if you're honest with yourself:

Chinese police mistakenly beat wife of high-ranking CCP security official – for 15 minutes

(Hat tip to The Marmot's Hole)

I Can’t Look at Hobbles and I Can’t Stand Fences

Don't fence me in:

China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.

Used to think it was hyperbole to describe the PRC as "neo-fascist". Maybe I was mistaken on that score.