12
October 2017
Past Event
Liu Xiaobo’s Legacy and the Future of Chinese Democracy

Liu Xiaobo’s Legacy and the Future of Chinese Democracy

Past Event
91 Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
October 12, 2017
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People mourn the death of Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, July 13, 2017 (Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images)
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People mourn the death of Liu Xiaobo outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, July 13, 2017 (Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images)
12
October 2017
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Xu Youyu

Former professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Charter ’08 Signatory; and University in Exile Fellow, The New School

Ambassador Mark P. Lagon

Chief Policy Officer, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Distinguished Senior Scholar, Georgetown University

Jared Genser

Managing Director, Perseus Strategies; Founder, Freedom Now; and legal counsel to Liu Xia and former counsel to Liu Xiaobo

Yang Jianli

Charter '08 Signatory and President, Initiatives for China

Eric Brown

Senior Fellow, 91 Institute

Liu Xiaobo, the renowned writer and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died of cancer this past July while serving an 11-year prison sentence in the People’s Republic of China for the crime of “inciting subversion of state power.”

A Chinese patriot and fearless critic of the Communist Party, Liu was arrested in 2008 for his leading role in Charter ’08, a powerful appeal for nonviolent action by the Chinese people to replace the PRC’s Leninist system with a civil democracy based on rule of law and human rights. Liu’s great hope was that China would democratize and be a force for peace and stability in the world. He also warned that if the Communist Party did not permit democratic reforms, it would be ruinous for China and the PRC would become a threat to liberal democracy globally as well as to peace in Asia.

To consolidate his power in advance of the Communist Party’s 19th Congress later this month, President Xi Jinping has been running an intense campaign of suppression against advocates of constitutionalism, rule of law, and human rights. On October 12, 91 Institute convened a panel to remember Liu Xiaobo and discuss his ideas and the prospects for peaceful political change inside Xi’s PRC.

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