Lu Lu

After spending eight years trying to silence Shen Yun Performing Arts and 60 years trying to destroy China’s traditional culture, the Chinese Communist Party suddenly wants to convince the people of China it can offer a performance like Shen Yun’s evocation of China’s divinely inspired, traditional culture. No clearer sign of the Party’s desperation exists than this attempt to imitate what the CCP has always sought to destroy.

Early in the morning of April 6, a court in China’s coastal Jiangsu Province reversed itself and decided to stop punishing a lawyer for practicing law. That grudging reversal—gained due to protests from lawyers and the public—may be a sign of bigger changes afoot.