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Brooklyns_Finest

(789 posts)
Mon May 13, 2013, 12:23 AM May 2013

Chinese petition white house


http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-air-cases-petitioning-white-house-051009038.html

BEIJING (AP) — The poisoning of a college student 18 years ago recently re-emerged as a hot topic in China, but censors soon squelched the politically sensitive online discussions over whether the culprit may have eluded punishment because of Communist Party connections.
Chinese looking for justice found another way to keep the issue alive. They took it to Washington.
Appealing to a White House online petition page, they soon gathered the 100,000 signatures required for an official response, and — although there has been no response from Washington so far — news of the request revived talk about the case in China. Beijing police issued an explanation after weeks of silence, and state media chimed in with editorials.
"The Chinese public went to a foreign site to vent off their frustration, and that speaks of the loss of credibility of the Chinese government," said Shen Dingli, professor of American studies at Fudan University.


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I don't have much to say about this other than America, the only real hope for the free world.
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Chinese petition white house (Original Post) Brooklyns_Finest May 2013 OP
Hope. defacto7 May 2013 #1
not enuff dems for change hope is all that's left leftyohiolib May 2013 #2
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