China is disappearing not just its own citizens but those of many other countries , too, including Australians. It seems so long as you have a Chinese name you can be disappeared, especially for your Internet activity. It’s nothing new and that’s why it is getting worse. They continue to get away with it because they can. Economically, the world needs China and now like some monster from a fairytale it gobbles up our people.
Perhaps we just don’t understand Chinese culture. Or perhaps we underestimate the evils of our own culture, which both capitulates to and empowers the Chinese government of which we supposedly disapprove.
We don’t understand Chinese culture. It’s simply hard to fight a monster, especially one that grows fat on pragmatism. I mean whenever did pragmatism get sexy, anyway. Machiavelli was known to be a pragmatic monster, so we know what that’s about but we still had the American revolution.
Thanks for posting this article. I hope ‘Henry’ and his disappeared brethren turn up unharmed.
Not (yet) disappeared. Merely harassed. But worth a read.
Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents.
Another geek at boing boing, Xeni Jardin, reported receiving the same kind harassment at the border, twice, today alone.