“You see a Party system that crushes down anybody who [has] different opinions, who has different ideas in their mind. Simply to have different opinions can cost someone their life. They can be put in jail, they can be silenced, and they can [disappear]. And the other people would take it, not giving support.”

— Ai Weiwei

2010-, Ai Weiwei, interview by Christiane Amanpour, 2010

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