More on China's "burgeoning animal-rights activism"...

A Newsweek editorial offered a thoughtful look at last week's spontaneous rescue of several hundred dogs in Beijing. As Isaac Stone Fish observes:

This burgeoning animal-rights activism, aided by the ease of Weibo communication, coexists not only with the braised dog stew found on menus across China but also with China's "take many prisoners" attitude toward human-rights activists. Over the past few months, dozens of outspoken lawyers, artists, and underground church pastors have been harassed, detained, or arrested; some activists say it's the most stifling environment since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. These arrests rarely make it into China's muzzled media. The dog saving, however, has been a very big story.

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