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China seizes house of American woman barred from leaving country Print this article A court in China has evicted an American woman from her house in Beijing even as the Chinese authorities refuse to allow her to leave the country, despite public appeals and private lobbying from the United States. “We frequently stress to the Chinese government — including at the highest levels — our concern about China’s coercive use of exit bans on U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries, and will continue to do so until we see a transparent and fair process,” a State Department spokespers...

Hong Kong’s Courts Are the Last Check on Beijing’s Growing Power Bloomberg 12/24/2020 Iain Marlow, Kari Lindberg and Natalie Lung (Bloomberg) -- For decades, Jimmy Lai has embodied the spirit of defiance in Hong Kong. He fled Communist China at the age of 12 to work in a garment factory, launched a pro-democracy media empire after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and became one of the world’s best known critics of Beijing. The city got a different glimpse of Lai on a recent Saturday in December: Shackled at the wrists, with a metal chain around his waist, the 73-yea...