China newspaper dispute sparks petition, protest
... "I feel that the ordinary people must awaken," said one of the protesters, Yuan Fengchu, who was reached by phone. "The people are starting to realize that their rights have been taken away by the Communist Party and they are feeling that they are being constantly oppressed."
Political expression in the public sphere is often viewed as risky in China, where the authoritarian government frequently harasses and even jails dissidents for pro-democracy calls. ...
Many people of European heritage in the United States feel equally powerless about their government planned demographic demise. No, they don't have to worry about a knock on the door at night and a ride down to government headquarters, but rather a form of governmentally and socially enforced 'soft totalitarianism' that ruins careers and reputations or makes them impossible to build.
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