A Light Fades Out

At a time when Donald Trump’s America grapples with building walls and withdrawing from the world, there has been a growing temptation for some to see China, the world’s second largest economy, as the next champion of the liberal global order.

- Ananth Krishnan

There can perhaps be no starker reality check – and one that should put paid to such notions – than the untimely death of Liu Xiaobo.

On July 13, China’s most well-known dissident, writer and Nobel Laureate died from liver cancer in a hospital in Shenyang, a city in northeast China where he was serving a 11-year jail term for “inciting subversion of state power”.