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<p>Source: <a href="http://supchina.com/">Sup China</a> (7/12/17)<br />
Liu Xiaobo near death</p>
<p>Dissident Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波, who has been out on <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=a5367469d2&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">medical parole</a> since June 26 from his 11-year prison sentence to have his terminal liver cancer treated, is “<strong>in septic shock and his organ functions continue to fail</strong>,” according to a <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=0897cac48e&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statement</a> (in Chinese) signed by Liu’s family members and released by the hospital where Liu is being held. The <em>Guardian </em><a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=bfdf5d6f3e&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">notes</a> that many observers see this statement as unreliable, as some argue it is “designed to bolster Beijing’s assertion that Liu is unfit to leave China rather than accurately convey the state of his health.” Just several days ago, two doctors from the U.S. and Germany visited Liu and <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=331cd653a3&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">contradicted</a> Chinese government statements that he was too sick to travel.</p>
<p><strong>What now for Liu?</strong></p>
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<li>The <em>New York Times </em>solemnly <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=4bfc7132a1&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a> (paywall) that “Mr. Liu could become the <strong>first Nobel laureate to die in state custody since Carl von Ossietzky, the German pacifist</strong> and foe of Nazism who died under guard in 1938.”</li>
<li>International leaders, observers, and media continue to call for Liu to receive medical treatment abroad. Tsai Ing-wen, the president of Taiwan, <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=376f193a6e&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">chimed</a> in on Twitter to “call on #Beijing to free #LiuXiaobo & allow him to seek treatment wherever he wishes. #Taiwan willing to provide any medical assistance.”</li>
<li>As many sadly <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=cf3d272afa&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">noted</a>, still missing from international calls for Liu’s release is any statement from the U.S. president or his government.</li>
<li>James Palmer <a href="http://supchina.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=2f3ed2a98e&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">writes</a> in <em>Foreign Policy</em>, “<strong>The Chinese think Liu Xiaobo was asking for it</strong>,” because the government has set up a social context in which “blaming the victim is the easiest way for people to sleep at night in a country where the government could crush you at any moment.”</li>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on July 13, 2017 </div>
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