One-man show just a distraction
'Dissident's plea for protection from China deepens crisis," declared a headline in the New York Times.
By "dissident", it referred to Chen Guangcheng, a blind man from East China's Shandong province who provided legal advice to those allegedly victimized by improper enforcement of family planning policies, though few in this country would address him that way.
Actually few would have heard of him until a couple of days ago. The paper's report identifying Chen as "one of China's most prominent dissidents", therefore, will no doubt come as an enlightening revelation to most people here.
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