Exiled Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says that Beijing should prepare for a Ukrainian-style uprising provoked by the Communist country’s hardening crackdown on human rights. “It is possible for the Chinese to have a similar revolution to the one in Ukraine. It could happen any time,” Chen told AFP. Guangcheng, who lives in New York after miraculously escaping house arrest in China in 2012,... 

A pro-party daily lambasted anti-censorship strikers in China’s Guangzhou, saying their “issue will see no surprise ending.” Several major outlets reposted the piece only with disclaimers, prompting speculation they’d taken a stand against Beijing. ­On Monday, all five of China’s major web portals started publishing an editorial put together by the Global Times, a tabloid associated with...