Responding to an inquiry from a U.S. congressional committee, the American Bar Association has insisted that it did not rescind an offer to publish a book by Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao to curry favor with the Chinese government.
In a letter sent Monday to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, ABA president Paulette Brown and executive director Jack Rives stated “unequivocally” that canceling the book deal was purely a business decision, made after a distributor projected that only 10 percent of Teng’s books would be sold.
