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https://scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2161840/world-leaders-quiet-chinas-human-rights-record-andPolitics
World leaders quiet on China’s human rights record and focus on money, says censored author Yan Lianke
Novelist who has found success overseas challenges visiting politicians to raise the matter with China
British Prime Minister Theresa May is among the foreign leaders who have visited Beijing without raising publicly China’s human rights record. Photo: Bloomberg
Chinese author Yan Lianke, whose works are banned in his heavily censored homeland, has urged world leaders not to shy away from confronting China about its human rights record.
Yan, whose frank portrayals of Chinese life have prompted years of state censorship, said leaders flocking to China had become too focused on economic ties.