That today's China descends from empires makes it harder to define what is "inside" and what is "outside" the country, as the Chinese like to put it. Much of the territory of today's People's Republic of China was acquired through conquest...

The political positions of the 1989 democracy movement were first laid out in the Seven-Point Petition that student representatives, including myself, submitted to officials in an 18 April 1989 meeting in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, which sits...

Nowhere are the signs of crimes against humanity more alarming than in the expanding system of concentration camps which observers have said are springing up across Xinjiang. …The international community must demand an independent and effective commission...

And a politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment began to appear, and that kind of politics is now on the move. It's on the move at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. I am not being alarmist, I am simply stating the...