Chinese Autocracy Has Great Advantages – Thomas Friedman

By Jim

  Say it ain’t so Tom! Has The New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman gone over to the dark side? In his Times epistle on Sept.9, Friedman actually writes that one–party autocracy has its drawbacks, “But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can... »

Kadeer: 10,000 Uighurs Have Disappeared

By Jim

During a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, on Wednesday, Rebiya Kadeer, head of the pro-independence World Uyghur Congress, sought international support to urge Beijing to give full accounting of the deadly riots in its far west. Kadeer is an exiled Uighur activist whose visit to Japan has already drawn... »