A draft email found on his Yahoo page containing proposals for a more democratic China was the principal evidence against him.

We all favor a free and democratic China, but there are two Republican schools on how to get there.

The struggle for a free, democratic China is the most important issue in world politics.

And even if someone connects the dots, and makes a framework for a more democratic China, who will fill in the contents?

A democratic China would be an ally and trading partner.

It is the young, not the hard-line Communists, who are determined to create a prosperous, democratic China.

"We believed we were creating a new, free, strong, democratic and prosperous China."

And our cut-off point has to be a democratic China, a pole of stability in a multipolar, peaceful world.

The leaders of the democratic China of the future will doubtless remember his signal service to their cause.

Why not, and what message are we sending to those interested in a democratic China?