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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (8307)	3/16/1999 8:42:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 9980

Thank you for the temperate, well-informed, and interesting comment and for the link to news about China.

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (8307)	3/17/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: Liatris Spicata	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Ramsey- Thank you for your excellent link. I will explore it in depth in due course. I'd like to respond at length to your comments, but in general I would say we are still talking past one another. Yes, the Chinese government has been concerned about corruption, official and otherwise. After all, in many cases that represents resources taken from state assets- one would expect them to be concerned about such matters. That's not what my colleague was referring to. He referred to a Chinese citizen placing himself in jeopardy if he sought to investigate and publicize abuses on the part of the Party acting within its own rules. Such might criticism of current policy as well a vast historical legacy involving the murder of millions. One reason officialdom might seek to silence such a person might be fear it could undermine the "legitimacy" of the Party. Another might be that many "good" party functionaries who committed horrible crimes are still in positions of authority. There is a reason the world has yet to see a Chinese publish a "Gulag Archipelago". Will you deny that someone who attempted to publish a Chinese equivalent of the Gulag Archipelago in China today would do so at serious personal risk? Today's NY Times reports the arrest of a former official- now a dissident- on grounds of corruption. Are you confident the gentleman will receive a fair trial? Or perchance is this another Anwar? nytimes.com Larry