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A further Post article suggested that ultimately, the joke was on the GOP: Its crackdown on legal immigrants is scaring them into becoming American citizens, and they're overwhelmingly registering to vote as Democrats.
The crackdown on Tibetan religion has worsened.
It isn't as though the issue of human-rights abuses has gone away; China's crackdown on the Falun Gong continues (click here to read a summary of a recent Amnesty International report, and here to read a pretty good Post Op-Ed column by E.J.
Now, as someone who drives fairly often into the city, I'm pleased by the crackdown, since double-parkers have the magical ability to turn three-lane avenues as wide as an Interstate into slow-moving country roads.
The NYT and WP run inside stories reporting that according to a human rights group, a recent crackdown by China against Protestant congregations that do not formally accept the leadership of the government has resulted in the arrest of seventy church members.