The artist who designed the Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Olympics (and then boycotted the opening ceremony), and more recently installed an incredible piece of art at the Tate Modern in London involving hundreds of thousands of hand-painted porcelain seeds, has been arrested by Chinese authorities and is missing. The crackdown on dissidents signals a shift towards more repression as the government tries to maintain social stability in China.
China's Crackdown Signals Shift - WSJ.com
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