{"id":22564,"date":"2010-10-26T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_peter_hartcher-china_is_on_wrong_side_of_history\/"},"modified":"2010-10-26T17:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:20:44","slug":"smh_peter_hartcher-china_is_on_wrong_side_of_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22564","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Peter Hartcher&#8211;China is on wrong side of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Parliament had been scheduled yesterday to debate a resolution calling on China to free the Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo.<\/p>\n<p>Liu, 54, was sentenced in December to 11 years in jail. His crime? To co-write Charter 08, a manifesto calling on the Chinese government to give real force to China&#8217;s constitution. This would separate the ruling party from the state, allow a truly independent judiciary and create a real parliamentary democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The peaceful pursuit of these rights &#8211; rights enjoyed by the citizens of every other big power and grandly proclaimed in the constitution &#8211; was judged by China&#8217;s courts to be an &#8220;incitement to subvert state power&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/politics\/china-is-on-wrong-side-of-history-20101025-170uc.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Parliament had been scheduled yesterday to debate a resolution calling on China to free the Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo. Liu, 54, was sentenced in December to 11 years in jail. His crime? To co-write Charter 08,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22564\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,204,502,200,144,119,114,151,452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-australia-nz","category-china","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}