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May 1, 2012

The Sounds of Silence on Chen Guangcheng

Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Policy

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Your humble blogger has been silent on the ongoing Chen Guangcheng case in China. To be fair, however, I was merely copying what the Chinese and U.S. governments were doing: furiously not commenting on the case as the next Strategic and Economic Dialogue between Washington and Beijing.

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