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Articles by Liu Xiaobo
Divergence and Tacit Understanding in the China–Philippines Provisional Arrangement at Second Thomas Shoal
Second Thomas Shoal has become one of the most sensitive flashpoints in the South China Sea dispute between China and the Philippines. Since 1999, when the Philippines deliberately grounded the warship BRP Sierra Madre on the shoal, the feature has steadily evolved into a key front line in the broader maritime contest between the two sides. After the sharp confrontation on June 17, 2024, the situation came close to spinning out of control.
The Influence of the Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act on Navigation Rights
On November 9, 2024, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into law both the Philippine Maritime Zones Act and the Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes (ASL Act). Observers have been particularly focused on the Philippine Maritime Zones Act for intensifying the dispute between China and the Philippines, but it is the ASL Act that has broad implications for the navigation rights of countries in the Western Pacific.
White Elephant Foods Partners with Chinese Women's Soccer Team to Cultivate Rose Blooming Fund
White Elephant Foods Joins Forces with Chinese Women’s Soccer Team to Cultivate Success By Liu Xiaobo, Henan Daily Client Reporter In the world of sports, this summer has been full of exciting events. On July 2, after 12 years, the Chinese women’s basketball team reclaimed their title as Asia’s champions, igniting a surge of excitement and pride among the Chinese people.
Sino-U.S. Naval Warfare Capabilities amid Great Power Competition
April 23 marked the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). As U.S.-China frictions continue and great power competition becomes the central focus of U.S. defense strategy, the question of just how far the PLAN has come in its development has become critical. Does the PLAN currently pose a threat to the U.S. Navy? And could it soon surpass it?
How China Can Resolve the FONOP Deadlock in the South China Sea
Since 2017, the U.S. Navy has performed freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea routinely, on a basis of about every two months. In response to each operation, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) customarily dispatches air and surface units to carry out verification and identification, and to warn the U.S. warships to steer away. Though now routine, these exercises continue to spark fierce debate in the academic circles and media of both countries.
One Letter is Enough, Longing to Escape, A Small Rat in Prison, and Daybreak
Home One Letter is Enough, Longing to Escape, A Small Rat in Prison, and Daybreak By: Liu Xiaobo October 9, 2009 One Letter Is Enough for Xia one letter is enough for me to transcend and face you to speak as the wind blows past the night uses its own blood to write a secret verse that reminds me each word is the last word the ice in your body melts into a myth of fire in the eyes of the executioner fury turns to stone two sets of iron rails unexpectedly overlap moths flap toward lamp light,...
A Madman’s End - China Channel
It is impossible to describe the exhilaration I felt upon reading Li Ao’s A Monologue on Tradition (獨白下的傳統) when it first appeared in 1979. At the time, I was working for The Seventies Monthly (七十年代月刊), a prominent Chinese-language magazine edited by the noted Hong Kong journalist Lee Yee (李怡). After years studying in late-Maoist China immersed in the works of the Great Helmsman #1 and stilted Party prose, the initial shock of Hong Kong’s cultural richness was immense.
Liu Xiaobo’s Last Text
Liu Xiaobo’s Last Text Liu XiaLiu Xiaobo, circa 1999; photograph by Liu Xia from her ‘Ugly Babies’ series This text is the last thing that Liu Xiaobo, the literary critic, poet, and human rights activist, wrote. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, two years after he was imprisoned for eleven years on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power.” His “crime” was to speak out for freedom of speech, basic human rights, and democratic elections.
The New York Review of Books
Between the gray walls and a burst of chopping sounds, morning comes, bundled and sliced, and vanishes with the paralyzed souls of the chopped vegetables. Light and darkness pass through my pupils. How do I know the difference? Sitting in the rust, I can’t tell if it’s the shine on the shackles in the jail or the natural light of Nature from outside the walls. Daylight betrays everything, the splendid sun stunned. Morning stretches and stretches in vain.
Without A Tomb To Sweep: The Death of Liu Xiaobo
This past Saturday, China Law & Policy marked the 8th anniversary of its founding. But a commemorative birthday piece seemed inappropriate with the news that a few days earlier China’s only Noble Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, died in police custody. Since the founding of this blog, Liu Xiaobo has been in jail. His crime? His speech. And in examining the Chinese government’s cruel response to Liu’s death, it is this speech that this aspiring superpower continues to fear.
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2014): ‘I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement’
Liu Xiaobo, the famous Chinese dissident, who died of multiple organ failure, was given the Nobel peace prize “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”. Liu was diagnosed with late-stage liver cancer in May, while serving an 11-year sentence for his involvement in a pro-democracy manifesto called Charter 08 that called for an end to China’s one-party rule.
China’s Charter 08
The document below, signed by more than two thousand Chinese citizens, was conceived and written in conscious admiration of the founding of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, where, in January 1977, more than two hundred Czech and Slovak intellectuals formed a The Chinese document calls not for ameliorative reform of the current political system but for an end to some of its essential features, including one-party rule, and their replacement with a system based on human rights and democracy.
#FreeLiuXia
Dozens of celebrated writers, poets and artists have called for the lifting of all restrictions on Chinese poet and artist Liu Xia, held under illegal house arrest without charge since October 2010. Rita Dove, Paul Auster, JM Coetzee, Khaled Hosseini, Hu Ping and Michael Chabon are among a group of writers who have read excerpts of Liu Xia's poerty as paet of a video campaign advocating for her freedom.
Liu Xiaobo: Western Doctors Contradict China On Nobel Laureate's Cancer
Two Western doctors have contradicted Chinese medical experts over the fate of a dying Nobel Peace Prize winner. Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned pro-democracy advocate, was moved to hospital while serving an 11-year jail term, because of his advanced terminal liver cancer. His doctors in China say he is too ill to travel abroad for treatment, and must remain in China. But medics from the US and Germany who examined Mr Liu disagree, and say he could go abroad for palliative care.
Liu Xiaobo: Western doctors contradict China on Nobel laureate's cancer - BBC News
Two Western doctors have contradicted Chinese medical experts over the fate of a dying Nobel Peace Prize winner. Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned pro-democracy advocate, was moved to hospital while serving an 11-year jail term, because of his advanced terminal liver cancer. His doctors in China say he is too ill to travel abroad for treatment, and must remain in China. But medics from the US and Germany who examined Mr Liu disagree, and say he could go abroad for palliative care.
Liu Xiaobo: Western doctors contradict China on Nobel laureate's cancer - BBC News
Two Western doctors have contradicted Chinese medical experts over the fate of a dying Nobel Peace Prize winner. Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned pro-democracy advocate, was moved to hospital while serving an 11-year jail term, because of his advanced terminal liver cancer. His doctors in China say he is too ill to travel abroad for treatment, and must remain in China. But medics from the US and Germany who examined Mr Liu disagree, and say he could go abroad for palliative care.
The love that survived a Chinese labour camp
Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent years in prison for calling for political change in his country. For more than half of his marriage to Liu Xia, he has been imprisoned, and now he is dying of cancer. The BBC's Celia Hatton looks back at how the couple's love survived. They fought to be allowed to marry each other. But when the government in Beijing finally backed down, permitting one of its unrelenting critics to marry his love, problems remained.
The love that survived a Chinese labour camp
Image copyright Supplied Image caption The couple's romance has played out in labour camps, prisons and under house arrest, with the Chinese state always a third wheel Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent years in prison for calling for political change in his country. For more than half of his marriage to Liu Xia, he has been imprisoned, and now he is dying of cancer. The BBC's Celia Hatton looks back at how the couple's love survived.
Words a Cell Can’t Hold
I had imagined being there beneath sunlight with the procession of martyrs using just the one thin bone to uphold a true conviction And yet, the heavenly void will not plate the sacrificed in gold A pack of wolves well-fed full of corpses celebrate in the warm noon air aflood with joy Faraway place I’ve exiled my life to this place without sun to flee the era of Christ’s birth I cannot face the blinding vision on the cross From a wisp of smoke to a little heap of ash I’ve drained the drink of...
Photo shows a tiny victim of Europe's refugee crisis/Humanity Needed !!
I struggled ..... on sharing this photo, but I truly believe if people see the truth, their hearts are forced open. As, this could be our, your, my child. The same happens in the US, but you don't see the carnage, the truth. You didn't see the children killed at Sandy Hook, you don't see the hispanics dead in the desert..... If you did, there would be no doubt, many hearts and minds would open. But the water is lapping around his face and his body is lifeless.
RESPONSE ON: Article regarding the Horrific Murder of Son, by an Illegal Immigrant!/OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY!
I was commenting under Lisa Schneider's article, but my response became too complex. http://sperrys.newsvine.com/_news/2015/07/21/33549404-mother-of-horrifically-murdered-son-speaks-to-congress-today-comments-media-largely-leaving-out-on-her-story-and-what-she-said-about-trump Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.Dalai Lama Lisa, I commend your gallant effort in sharing this story of this horrid murder.
Five turning points and two key issues for China in 2015
By Liu Xiaobo, from People’s Daily In the spring of 2015, China not only astonished the world but also revolutionized its global image through three major events: the One Belt One Road initiative (including the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road), the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Yemen evacuation.
Liu Xiaobo, Zhou Duo, Hou Dejian, Gao Xin, 1989
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Tiananmen Square: The hunger strike declaration, 2 June 1989 - Liu Xiaobo, Zhou Duo, Hou Dejian, Gao Xin, 1989
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