‘This Regime Needs to Go’: Enes Kanter Freedom Blasts Communist China

For his first game with the shoes, Freedom chose to wear a pair of sneakers that said “Free Tibet.”
Two members of the Boston Celtics staff, the team whom he played for at the time, approached him before the game began and told him that he would need to take off his shoes in order to play.

China’s Useful Elitists: Westerners Exploited for Beijing’s Domestic Image

These Western sympathizers reflect an old phenomenon of outside elites finding much to like in authoritarian systems—communist, fascist or even Nazi—while downplaying or ignoring their faults. In the 1930s, perhaps the most famous “Friend of China,” left-leaning American journalist Edgar Snow, influenced generations of Americans through his book “Red Star Over China” to view the rising Mao Zedong as a benignly progressive figure rather than a ruthless dictator.