“Compared with the Communist Party, cigarettes are a good thing for me!” Liu jokes during our discussion of her enforced separation of almost two years from her husband, the jailed dissident writer Liu Xiaobo.
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‘When people say I should give up or smoke less, I say, ‘What can be more harmful than the Communist Party?’,” Liu Xia says, drawing on a cigarette at a teahouse near her Beijing apartment.
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