Communists without communism or much actual socialism are still brutes.
Swedish Bookseller Held in China Surfaces for Video Apology
A Hong Kong-based bookseller with Swedish nationality, snatched from a train to Beijing by the Chinese police last month for undisclosed reasons, resurfaced on Friday to declare in a police-arranged interview that he wanted no help from the outside world.
The interview between the bookseller, Gui Minhai, and several Hong Kong and Chinese journalists was the latest twist in a case that has generated an international furor, opening a rift between China and Sweden.
Mr. Gui, whose business sells gossipy books critical of China’s leaders, was secretly spirited from Thailand to China in 2015 and held for two years, amid diplomatic tensions over his rights.
He was formally freed last year but ordered to remain in China, where he lived in an apartment in the eastern city of Ningbo.
He disappeared again in January, seized from a Beijing-bound train as two Swedish diplomats were accompanying him to the Swedish embassy in the Chinese capital for a medical examination.
Mr. Gui has shown symptoms of possible amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also called A.L.S. or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disorder that degrades muscle actions.
If Trump hasn't expressed admiration for the Chinese for these actions, and envy of their ability to take them, it's only because he doesn't know about them, or because he's annoyed they have not helped him deal with North Korea.
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