{"id":16921,"date":"2012-05-01T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2012-05-01T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T12:30:42","slug":"justin-raimondo-chinas-reformist-crooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16921","title":{"rendered":"Justin Raimondo: China\u2019s \u2018Reformist\u2019 Crooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Inside the struggle for power in the People&#8217;s Republic of China<\/p>\n<p>by <a title=\"Posts by Justin Raimondo\" href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/author\/justin\/\" rel=\"author\">Justin Raimondo<\/a>, Antiwar.com, 30 April 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US embassy in Beijing is a pretty happening place of late. First the police chief of a major city <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.myjoyonline.com\/mobile\/v3\/read.php?siteid=8&amp;catid=11&amp;contentid=84743\">tries to defect<\/a> and implicates the wife of a top Chinese leader in a murder plot. The police chief, one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/apr\/19\/wang-lijun-neil-heywood-case\">Wang Lijun<\/a>, leaves the next day, is spirited away by the authorities \u2013 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-Pacific\/2012\/0428\/China-s-Bo-Xilai-affair-where-the-case-stands\">Bo Xilai<\/a>, an up-and-coming party leader poised to challenge China\u2019s \u201creformist\u201d leadership, disappears from sight. Next up: a blind Chinese human rights activist <a href=\"http:\/\/behindthewall.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/04\/27\/11428215-blind-chinese-activist-chen-guangcheng-escapes-from-house-arrest?chromedomain=worldnews&amp;lite\">escapes<\/a> from house arrest, and arrives at the US embassy \u2013 which is 300 miles away. Chen Guangcheng, we are told, scaled a wall in the dead of night \u2013 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/04\/28\/world\/asia\/china-activist-escape\/\">darkness is nothing to him<\/a>,\u201d said one commenter \u2013 and walked for miles, unassisted, until he met a supporter who drove him to Beijing. Reportedly his captors did not even notice he was gone until it was too late. Although details are \u201cmurky,\u201d according to a <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/29\/world\/asia\/flight-of-chen-guangcheng-chinese-rights-lawyer-thrills-dissidents.html\">account<\/a>, the escape was apparently long-planned, with Chen feigning illness for weeks. One telling detail: he also was able to link up with his supporters by cell phone in spite of a jamming device that authorities used to isolate him from communications with the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Where would a Chinese dissident held incommunicado in an isolated farmhouse get a de-jamming device?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2012\/04\/29\/chinas-reformist-crooks\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;China\u2019s \u2018Reformist\u2019 Crooks&#8221; by Justin Raimondo<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the struggle for power in the People&#8217;s Republic of China by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, 30 April 2012 The US embassy in Beijing is a pretty happening place of late. First the police chief of a major city tries to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4oV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}