Yan Fei, a resident from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, was arrested by local police on April 19 for calling on his friends and family to sign a petition on the White House website condemning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On his post, Yan wrote that if 100,000 people signed the petition within 30 days, the CCP would be identified as a terrorist organization, and the White House would issue an official response on the matter. The petition is one of countless such calls posted to the White House’s “We the People” section, which was introduced by the Obama...