{"id":51727,"date":"2015-07-14T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/thanks-china.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:01:41","slug":"thanks-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/thanks-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, China!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;d almost forgotten that you&#39;re not just a growing economic powerhouse but also a totalitarian regime that will stop at nothing to keep your ruling order in power in the name of &quot;social harmony.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Not that the dangers of &quot;national security&quot; overreach are unique to the People&#39;s Republic, by any means, but it&#39;s good now and again to get a reminder of how it looks out in the open and unashamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/asia\/la-fg-china-rights-lawyers-20150713-story.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/MLQ5mH7CHHT5BytKewXnzX-lTKg4T7s_u3KQeU0qDsNoWfPuicWQ7VMvHgiFXO6Q4dbmuSsR7W2EtsCcWfFZBTqbNwMvPRbB4rBIPOxWDkSy2tCDCfZxQlbM7otSmA=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/asia\/la-fg-china-rights-lawyers-20150713-story.html'>China claims human rights lawyers were part of &#8216;criminal syndicate&#8217;<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn the face of international condemnation for a mass roundup of human rights lawyers, China&rsquo;s authorities have responded with what they claim is evidence of a &ldquo;criminal syndicate&rdquo; of rights activists and lawyers who purportedly galvanized public support for profit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/iipPhpFR3Pm'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#39;d almost forgotten that you&#39;re not just a growing economic powerhouse but also a totalitarian regime that will stop at nothing to keep your ruling order in power in the name of &quot;social harmony.&quot; Not that the dangers of &quot;national security&quot; overreach are unique to the People&#39;s Republic, by any means, but it&#39;s good now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/thanks-china.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thanks, China!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30954,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/romney-continues-the-misleading-jeeps-to-china-campaign.html","url_meta":{"origin":51727,"position":0},"title":"Romney continues the misleading &quot;Jeeps to China&quot; 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