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Ethan Gutmann

12 articles 1999–2013

Ethan Gutmann is an investigative journalist and author known for his extensive reporting on human rights abuses in China, including forced organ harvesting, censorship, and the persecution of dissidents. He contributed to The Weekly Standard from 1999 to 2013, writing in-depth pieces on Chinese government practices and U.S.-China relations. He is the author of several books on China, including *The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem*.

Chinese Blind Spot

March 22, 2012 · New York Times, China, Mitt Romney

Investigating Chinese surveillance is a rather lonely job. For all the dissidents yammering about dramatic arrests and torture and harvesting of organs, you can’t really guarantee publication or much of an audience unless you can prove that there are links to America: brand name corporations, scary…

The Xinjiang Procedure

December 5, 2011 · China, Features, Ethan Gutmann

To figure out what is taking place today in a closed society such as northwest China, sometimes you have to go back a decade, sometimes more. 

Into Thin Airwaves

December 6, 2010 · China, Features, Ethan Gutmann

Back in January 2010, Secretary of State Clinton gave a pay-any-price, bear-any-burden address calling for the liberation of the global Internet. The price Washington was willing to pay? It promised $50 million to groups developing “new tools that enable citizens to exercise their rights of free…

The Administration Kowtows

March 16, 2009 · Ethan Gutmann, Magazine

Over the last three weeks, the Obama administration has sent three clear signals to the Chinese leadership.

Why Wang Wenyi Was Shouting

May 8, 2006 · Features, Ethan Gutmann, Magazine

WANG WENYI, the woman whose shouts disrupted the welcoming ceremony for Chinese president Hu Jintao on the White House lawn on April 20, is a middle-aged pathologist and a follower of Falun Gong. That spiritual movement was outlawed in China in 1999, and since then Falun Gong has become a focal…

Who Lost China's Internet?

February 25, 2002 · Features, Ethan Gutmann, Magazine

BEIJING It's not easy being the father of the Chinese Internet. Children are running by, boats are paddling, the smell of roast lamb fills the air, and Michael Robinson, a young American computer engineer, sits rigidly, facing an empty cafe on the shore of Qinghai Lake, speaking in a low voice of…

Who Lost China's Internet?

February 15, 2002 · Ethan Gutmann, Blog

BEIJING It's not easy being the father of the Chinese Internet. Children are running by, boats are paddling, the smell of roast lamb fills the air, and Michael Robinson, a young American computer engineer, sits rigidly, facing an empty cafe on the shore of Qinghai Lake, speaking in a low voice of…