Lam Wing Kee, one of the dissident Hong Kong booksellers who was kidnapped to the mainland by Chinese spies, only to surface on TV confessing to "illegal trading," now says he was forced into the confession. (Image: BBC)
Hong Kong bookseller: I was forced to confess on China TV
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Bob Eckstein's watercolor postcards
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Why capitalism and consumerism play so well with Christianity in America
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