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OPC Program: A Conversation with Chinese Dissident Wu'er Kaixi

On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting with President Barack Obama on Sept. 25, the OPC hosted a conversation with Wu’er Kaixi, a student leader in the Beijing protests of 1989. He was forced into exile and has never been able to return to mainland China. Wu'er Kaixi remains active in politics and is a candidate in Taiwan's 2016 parliamentary elections. An ethnic Uighur, Wu’er Kaixi sees himself as one of the many victims of a systematic war the Chinese government has long been carrying out against its own people that is intensifying under Xi Jinping. Wu'er Kaixi believes the US is sending the wrong message to the world – and in particular to the Chinese government – by welcoming Xi Jinping to its shores and lending legitimacy to large-scale oppression. Barbara Demick will lead the discussion with Wu’er Kaixi. Demick is the former Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, and author of two books--Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood.