about the event Liu Xiaobo died on July 13, 2017, a victim of intolerance by a fearful Chinese government that imprisoned him for his leadership role in writing and organizing Charter 08. That historic document, which was published on December...

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On May 29 the National Endowment for Democracy commemorated the 25th anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown with the presentation of its annual Democracy Award to two imprisoned human rights activists, Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong....

2023 Reading Challenge Challenge yourself by reading books you wouldn’t normally check out. Find all of these...

  about the event Since its founding in July 1921 and subsequent rise to national power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has indelibly shaped the lives of billions of people living within the asserted borders of the People’s...

I’m very pleased that David Hoffman is part of this panel, since it was he who conducted the interview published in The Washington Post in March 2013 in which Angel Carromero said publicly...

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About the Event “If one were to remove these … shrines, the Uyghur people would lose contact with earth. They would no longer have a personal, cultural, and spiritual history. After a few years we would not have a memory of why we live...

Welcome and Introductions by Carl Gershman Let me first invite everyone to silence your cell phones and to let those using Twitter know that you can find our handle and hashtags in your program.   I also want to thank the many dedicated NED staff who organized...