‘You’re in an Authoritarian State. You Just Don’t Know It.’

In “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,“ renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei details his struggles with censorship and his fight for human rights. ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Reason is the planet’s leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to for a point of view you won’t get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines. ---------------- On the morning of April 3, 2011, the renowned artist Ai Weiwei was picked up by Chinese police at an airport in Beijing. Later that day, he found himself in the back of a van surrounded by security officials, wearing a black hood. They drove him to a secret detention facility where he was interrogated and monitored. It was here that Ai began to think of his young son, wondering when he would se