If he manages to escape China with his long-suffering wife and kids, it will not be because of the Americans, who already sold him down the river for the lure of Chinese profits. It will because Chinese authorities decide they have more to gain in the court of world and domestic opinion by releasing "on humanitarian grounds," a figure who actually is not that well known in any case among Chinese people, than they do from imprisoning him further and making a martyr of him domestically and abroad.
DAVE LINDORFF, who lived for a year and a half in Shanghai and Xi'an, spent five years as a reporter for Business Week based in the Hong Kong bureau. He is a founding member of ThisCantBeHappening!, the new independent Project Censored Award-winning online alternative newspaper. His work, and that of colleagues JOHN GRANT, LORI SPENCER, LINN WASHINGTON, JR. and CHARLES M. YOUNG, can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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