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What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere The Chinese authorities have monitored my activities here in the United States and used internet trolls to harass me online. Periodically, the party has menaced my family in China as a way to pressure me to end my work. ........ In Chinese, there is an idiom to describe how the government operates: “qi’ruan pa’ying,” or “bully the weak and fear the strong.” ........... the Chinese Communist Party, which commands arguably the world’s most sophisticated system of repression ....... It is costly, both in resources and reputation, to censor, try to intimidate and prosecute people on trumped-up charges. Once you demonstrate that you are not easily cowed, and will be a persistent headache, the bully may simply drop you as a target. ........ In the case of Mr. Murong, two days after his online post, the police summoned him for interrogation. And yet they decided not to arrest him. Mr. Murong’s audacity had stirred a wave of public attention. My guess is that the party determined that the negative publicity of an arrest would not be worth the deterrent effect. ........ The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died in police custody in 2017. ............. My experience working with victims of Chinese government abuses is that when the Communist Party’s iron fist first punches them, most people freeze and submit — but gradually, many will stand up, because of an innate sense of right and wrong. Some will become extraordinary human rights activists. ......... Once Harvard stood firm, other university presidents vowed not to be strong-armed by the administration. After the first law firms cut deals with the administration, some lawyers resigned from those firms in protest.
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