Ma Jian Quote

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Ma Jian

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

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About Ma Jian

Ma Jian may refer to:

Muhammad Ma Jian (马坚, 1906–1978), Chinese Confucian scholar and Islamic jurist
Ma Jian (writer) (马建, born 1953), Chinese writer
Ma Jian (politician) (马建, born 1956), former Vice Minister of State Security of China
Ma Jian (basketball) (马健, born 1969), Chinese basketball player and occasional actor
Jian Ma (computational biologist) (马坚), American computational biologist at Carnegie Mellon University.