The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition

From China’s Police State Blotter

This chapter ends with a short series of cases collected and edited from organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Human Rights in China, and Amnesty International. Some are particularly graphic, so please move on to the next chapter if you find them too unsettling. These cases do, however, help shed additional light on the level of Chinese repression—and the high stakes involved in fighting and winning The Coming China Wars:

• Beijing-based rights defense lawyer Li Heping was abducted by a group of unidentified masked men and then beaten and tortured with electric rods in a basement outside Beijing. The following day he was dumped in the woods outside the city and told to leave Beijing with his family. When Li ...