The Power of China’s Powerless
Whereas Kim Jong-il’s demise reminds us that all people are equal before death, Vaclav Havel’s passing reminds us that the value of life will eventually gain respect. Indeed, for Chinese concerned about how to live in truth under a post-totalitarian system, he remains the exemplar.
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LONDON – No sooner had I finished reading an article that eulogized Václav Havel, the playwright turned dissident turned peaceful revolutionary turned president who had just died, than two subsequent news stories set Havel’s extraordinary career in context: the death of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s pornography-addicted and nuclear-armed supreme leader, and the peaceful protests against land expropriation by the villagers of Wukan in Guandong province, southern China.