Charter 08

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

Dear Mr. President, You are scheduled to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao this coming Monday, November 12th in Hawaii at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference. The APEC meeting has been given a theme -- “seamless regional economy” -- and a goal of...
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Increased Calls for The Release of Blind Lawyer Chen Guangcheng

Dr. YANG Jianli, President of Initiatives for China, traveled to Taiwan recently and noticed a growing number of supporters in Taiwan and on the Mainland calling for the release of blind human rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng.  “The momentum has increased in recent...
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For Chinese Winner's Wife, Nobel is no Prize

NBC News By Adrienne Mong BEIJING—A year ago today, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a writer and activist imprisoned in a northeastern Chinese prison. Today he remains in jail for the crime of “inciting subversion of state power,” serving out an...
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Speech at We Have a Dream: Global Summit against Discrimination and Persecution

By: YANG Jianli Sept. 21, 2011, New York Dear friends, today we live in a land of shadows. Stark shadows cast by what is worst in us on what is best. In 1945, as one of the worst convulsions of violence in the history of mankind drew to a close, the United Nations was...
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