China disappeared Lee Ming-cheh as he was visiting China, and only later admitted he had been arrested. Now he has been sentenced to five years in prison for supposedly planning to hand out subversive publications.

That it makes this a crime convicts China yet again of tyranny.

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Indian thugs in Assam are kicking squatters out of an elephant refuge.

It is necessary to do this, but protecting any sort of wildlife will get ever harder as India's population increases. The only long-term solution is to reduce births and start to bring the human population down.

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Humans may be too desperate to survive to keep track of these things. Less reproduction would be a good thing.