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I would strongly suggest that you go to China after Yale. Live there for a few years, and then write about China. I can not imagine someone who writes about something he has never experienced. It is not a bad comment, but a suggestion.

I entirely agree with the previous comment. Everhart definitely sounds like one who hates China so much that he would never step on Chinese soil. He (and the Amnesty people he represents) make China sound so dangerous that it seems that any person living in China should fear for his life because he could be killed any second. If China is really that way, I do not think it would have developed so much in the recent years. Economic growth occurs only after safety is guaranteed.

Hello, this is Edwin Everhart.

I don't need to go to China to write about it. That is terrible logic.

I love China. When people tell me that the United States is the greatest nation on Earth, I correct them and tell them that China is clearly the greatest country. It is the country with the most glorious history, the richest culture, and the most possibility of any on the planet. China should be the moral leader of the world. The reason that I criticize some Chinese government policies is the same reason that I criticize some American government policies, some Russian policies, some Zimbabwean policies, et cetera: because they are unjust. Because they cause suffering. Because they are counterproductive and inefficient.

I have never claimed that "any person living in China should fear for his life." But it is certainly true that anyone who questions the system, anyone who "sticks out," anyone who fights for his legitimate rights, will be treated cruelly at best.

It is by selling out China's rich resources, and by exploiting its poor, that the government and business systems have created so much rapid economic growth - as well as by legitimate means.

This is not only my view, but it is generally the view of my friends in Amnesty International, and that of many sensible people in China and elsewhere.

Also, I have to ask you - where is Gao Zhisheng? Tell me honestly what happened to Gao Zhisheng. Tell me why a peaceful lawyer, fighting for poor people, was harassed for years, and has now disappeared under very suspicious circumstances. If China had a good government, Gao Zhisheng would still be at home with his wife and daughter.