Re. Ken Wren & all others such: there is no need to adjudicate any accusation against the PRC because Xi Jinping's own "declarations of intent" should suffice to mobilize all who believe in individual rights against the PRC, so long as he commands it. Was in China while Mao lived. Today's China is a festival of freedom in comparison, but is much less free than it was under Hu Jintao (when, inter alia, Stalin's "national in form..." still prevailed , and there were hundreds of significant decision-makers in China instead of only one). Criticism should be focused against XJP , not the Party let alone "China" : he should be denounced relentlessly as a megalomaniac extremist. It is indeed essential that he should stumble and fall