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...Reporting by Nian Liu, Yuan Yang, Ryan McMorrow and Sun Yu...
...Yu Wensheng Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng is part of a network of Chinese legal advocates targeted in a crackdown in the summer of 2015. Hundreds were detained and dozens jailed....
...“They forced Liu’s brother to praise the state and thank the government for his ‘humane treatment’,” Gao Yu, a prominent dissident, said on Twitter. “Then they threw Xiaobo into the boundless sea....
...Additional reporting by Gu Yu Wang Dan: ‘Sooner or later the young generation will stand up to fight’ Wang Dan’s Google Plus profile speaks volumes....
...Dissident artist Ai Weiwei was running second, with imprisoned writer, political activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo a close third....
...Yu Zhengsheng, the party secretary of Shanghai who is expected to be promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee, said that if the party centre agreed, he was willing to declare his assets publicly....
...Additional reporting by Gu Yu in Beijing...
...Yet if Mr Yu’s research has helped raise anxieties, the official response has been the opposite of what he preaches....
...Yu Jie, a writer and friend of Mr Liu’s, says the current leadership is taking a much harder position against domestic critics than when Jiang Zemin was president in the 1990s....
...When news broke that Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident, had won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, a friend invited Zhang Jianmin to a celebratory dinner....
...Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman, hit out at US lawmakers for calling for the release of Mr Liu and his wife, Liu Xia, who is under house arrest....
...On Tuesday, Jiang Yu, spokeswoman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said that anyone supporting Mr Liu was a “clown” and described the prize ceremony in Oslo as an “anti-China farce”....
...Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry official, said: “It is difficult to maintain friendly relations with Norway as in the past....
...The letter follows the award on Friday of this year’s Nobel peace prize to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident serving an 11-year jail sentence on charges of subversion....
...Continuing its harsh denunciation of the prize, Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry official, called the event was a “political farce”....
...Yet even if that is Mr Wen’s plan, some analysts believe, his prospects could have been made harder by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, the jailed dissident....
...Jiang Yu, a Chinese foreign ministry official, said: “I would like to say to those at the Nobel committee, they are orchestrating an anti-China farce by themselves....
...As Yu Yongding of Beijing’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says: “It is in China’s interest to keep supporting the euro and euro assets.”...
...Chinese affair,” said Jiang Yu, a foreign ministry spokeswoman on Thursday. ”Some countries or their embassy personnel expressed so-called statements on this matter, which we regard as crude meddling in...
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