China Cracking Down On Decent.

A reminder of what happens in a country that does not have Freedom of Speech.

A pre-eminent legal scholar and vocal critic of Chinese leader Xi Jinping was taken from his home early Monday by police, the latest public intellectual to be purged in China as the Communist Party increases its control over civil society.

nearly two dozen police officers surrounded his home in northern Beijing and took him away

Xu's whereabouts are currently unknown.

China has rapidly strengthened ideological controls over the country's universities and schools, jailed human rights lawyers and eviscerated other civil society platforms that once enjoyed a measure of free expression.

So next time someone is telling you how awful it is in the United States you can remind them there are alternatives.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/887548163/leading-critic-of-chinas-leadership-detained-in-beijing