Bloomberg Law
April 18, 2016, 8:35 PM UTC

Is the ABA Afraid of the Chinese Government?

Blake Edwards

The American Bar Association retracted an offer to publish the book of a well-known Chinese human rights lawyer last year, Foreign Policy reported on Friday .

In a January 2015 email to human rights lawyer and author Teng Biao, one ABA employee said the book was being killed because of the “risk of upsetting the Chinese government,” according to the article in Foreign Policy. A reporter for the magazine said Teng only forwarded the ABA’s email to his publication last week.

The ABA has since said that wasn’t the real reason for spiking the book’s publication. Teng, now a visiting scholar at New York University’s ...

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