“Before, when Ai Wei Wei was taken away, they had to make an excuse that it was really about his business, or a tax issue or something like that. So there's this trend, a decade or two ago, where they would use a pretence to detain someone when the real reason was their public participation or their political views. There was a fear that [RSDL - Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location] was going to make it more routine 'legal,' given a veneer of legality and legitimacy to it. And I think that's been well borne out.”
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