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The Foxhole: Michael Pillsbury, real-life ‘Smoking Man’ from Nixon to Obama, unravels China’s secrets

In autumn 1969, President Nixon and his White House national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, worried that one of the president’s main foreign policy objectives – the opening to China – conflicted with another: détente, the diplomatic overture to the Soviet…

China’s trade in torture, repression devices is flourishing, report finds

Metal spiked batons are some of the tools of torture manufactured by more than 130 Chinese firms, human rights advocates say. (Courtesy: Amnesty International) Electric shock batons, above, are inherently cruel and should be immediately banned by Chinese authorities, advocates…