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AMANPOUR: So you're clearly really sort of working against that with your art, with your -- with your activism.

AMANPOUR: And just to be clear, you're able to be in China and to act in China and to walk around and do your art and do all that blogging?

AMANPOUR: But is it because he's such a big name that he's not, you know, more seriously punished and cracked down, do you think?

Amanpour interrupted. "But they are calling on your father to step down, " she said.

Amanpour asked him what happened to all the western-oriented reforms he tried to implement?

In February, Saadi joined Saif to talk to ABC's Christiane Amanpour about the state of his country.

AMANPOUR: So then they cracked down on him, right, in the Cultural Revolution?

AMANPOUR: Let me ask you particularly about how you use imagery to express that view.

AMANPOUR: And do you think, Weiwei, that that's the only way now?

AMANPOUR: What influence did that have on you, on your art today and on your activism today?

AMANPOUR: And now Ai Weiwei joins me in the studio. Welcome. Thank you for being here.

AMANPOUR: And he was a hero of the Communist Party?

AMANPOUR: Ai Weiwei, Pat Mitchell, thank you both so much for joining us.

AMANPOUR: And what does shattering the urn mean, then? Shattering history? Shattering perceptions?

AMANPOUR: Before she was killed in the earthquake.

AMANPOUR: And then afterwards was the earthquake in 2008 in Sichuan.

AMANPOUR: So we're looking right now at your Twitter page and your Twitter domain.

Amanpour asked Gadhafi about the Libyan diplomats who have resigned from their posts in Washington, New York and elsewhere.

Good evening, everyone. I'm Christiane Amanpour, and welcome to the program.

He wanted to retire, he told Christiane Amanpour, he was 'fed up', but feared that his rapid departure would lead to 'chaos'.

AMANPOUR: And you yourself, though, you've had this blog. Have the Chinese pushed back? I understand they shut it down.

AMANPOUR: Is it having an effect on the Chinese government?