Wei Jingsheng

The status of women in China is very different from the way Communist propaganda describes. Women were never liberated under Mao; they were instead the first victims of repression under the People's Republic. In the face of forced abortions and sterilisation, not even the United Nations have the time or inclination to condemn Beijing. Here is the analysis of a great dissident.

Asia’s juggernaut is the world’s second biggest economy but only 8 per cent of its GDP is for local needs and consumption. The rest goes into useless speculation that is harmful to the national economy. Change is needed before it is too late. The great dissident provides his analysis.

The Chinese vice-president, Beijing's next leader, goes to America before his royal takeover. But it is election time in the United States too, and the "China issue" is increasingly important for the whole country. Not much expected from the encounter, if not some vague concession to boost election campaigns. The analysis of the great dissident.

As China’s industry grows rapidly, its countryside stagnates and stays poor. The Communist Party, not farmers are to blame for the situation, as party officials use land to make huge profits whilst maintaining public ownership. Only if land is privatised can it become productive. Here is the analysis by one of China’s great dissidents.

The crisis that has hit the world is of a financial nature. To defeat, rather than saving the financial giants focus should be placed on domestic production and the creation of an internal market. Beijing and Washington are divided on many points, but they have made the same mistake that must be remedied before it is too late. The analysis of the great dissident.

On 30 August, the government legalised ‘detention under surveillance’, a practice that is absolutely illegal that allows the authorities to make people disappear without motive or rights. It is a throwback to the dark days of the Cultural Revolution, but today people are less patient than at that time. Here is an analysis by the great dissident.

The recent visit of U.S. Vice President Biden in Beijing (7-21 August) has done more harm than good. Yet, the White House called it a success. Biden made it clear that, in the States, the perception towards human rights in China is changing and this is a defeat for the world. But the Communist Party should not overdo it, because Americans are still able to give a lot of hard lessons. The analysis of the great Chinese dissident.

The global economic crisis has laid bare the structural problems of the Chinese economy in the hands of the capitalists supported by the violence of the communist regime. Small and medium-sized businesses, the real engine of the economy, close while state funds are to state enterprises. Who use them to speculate even more and worsen the lives of the population. The analysis of the great dissident.

The communists celebrate, because Beijing’s great economic progress forces Europe and the U.S. to act as if they were its colonies. But they do not understand that without reform of the economic system - and especially if they fail to insert democracy within their domestic politics - they will not be able to avoid social unrest and the collapse of the one-party dictatorship. The analysis of the great dissident.

Merging markets and opening borders has undoubtedly had great benefits for the world, but not for those nations which - like China – exercise an authoritarian power and economic development. Without democracy and social equity Beijing will collapse. The analysis of the great Chinese dissident.

Ai Weiwei’s “release” is a smoke screen used to daze the West. The truth is that the repression in China is continuing and, indeed, worsening. Large multinationals, which have sold the human rights of Chinese people and their own values for cash, are co-conspirators. The denunciation of the great Chinese dissident.

With cases of "residence under surveillance" the regime violates the law in the name of the law. It sounds like a joke but it is not: it is indeed a very dangerous game in which nobody, not even the leaders themselves are safe. Chinese history itself proves this is the case. The analysis of the great dissident.