Just as Beijing citizens suffer from asthma and allergies, Tokyo citizens also endured endless smog-filled days, as Tokyo was encircled by factories in Haneda, Kawasaki, and Chiba (the factories have relocated elsewhere or else bankrupted by cheap imports).
They both patted me on the top of my head and told my father that he was right, that he was a good dad with a good son, and that the city of Beijing needed more citizens like us.
Unfortunately for the country's technology-starved citizens, Beijing has also taken notice of this emerging phenomenon.
Until Beijing's treatment of its own citizens and other countries alike is guided by transparency, respect and the rule of law, other nations will have little choice but to work together in defense of both their values and their interests.
The immediate crisis with China shows the importance of diluting Beijing's monopoly on the information that its citizens receive.
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In 1996, the filmmaker Zhao Liang began documenting Chinese citizens who converged on a government office in Beijing to present their written complaints regarding unredressed official injustices and who there met with further injustices that matched or surpassed those they were protesting.
In 1996, the documentary filmmaker Zhao Liang began filming Chinese citizens who converged on a government office in Beijing to present their written complaints regarding unredressed official injustices and who there met with injustices that matched or surpassed those they were protesting.
And just earlier this week, a congressional committee released a report urging American companies not to do business with Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE out of fear Beijing could use their networks to spy on U.S. citizens.
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He Jingjun, associate professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and commentator for The Beijing News, welcomes the execution decision as a "milestone in the protection of Chinese citizens overseas".
"Their adoption shows that the state has improved its ability to protect the rights and interests of its citizens, " says Chen Guangzhong, president of the University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.
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