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Caress with one hand, squeeze with the other.

That traditional Chinese tactic is in full bloom on the human rights front in the run-up to the Olympic Games in August.

The latest news is the sudden parole of Jude Shao, a naturalized U.S. citizen and Stanford Graduate School of Business alum who had served more than 10 years of a 16-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion. His trial was widely seen, including among Peking University law professors, as irregular.

Shao, 45, walked out of  Shanghai’s Qingpu Prison yesterday. The release came a day after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left China. The Bush administration had taken up Shao’s case consistently, and Ambassador Clark Randt occasionally spoke of visiting Shao in prison.

Click here for the Los Angeles Times story on Shao’s release. The Dui Hua Foundation in San Francisco also lauded the parole:

"Jude Shao's release ...

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