For those of you who like to know the real situation in China, and do not want to be a sucker fooled by western media, here is a trick in reading these articles.
Look for POSITIVE in a clearly anti-China article. These are points that are inadvertently disclosed even though the anti-China author are trying hard to hide it.
Case in point:
"Mr Xia helped draft Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political change in China, and is a friend of jailed 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo."
Charter 08 is a draft constitution that proposed to replace the current Chinese constitution with a democratic system. Mr Xia is a person that openly call for the changing of the current governmental system of China.
Then ask yourself this question. If Chinese authority is as intolerant as what western media make out to be, how could Mr Xia be able to stay on as a teacher in the topmost university in the country - Beijing university since 2002.
How could he stay on as professor after 2008 (the year Charter 08 drafted) until today?
Use your brain. And before long, you would discovered that you were being lie to over and over again.