Commentary Human rights activist and writer Yang Maodong, also known by the pen name Guo Feixiong, faces the risk of becoming the defining victim of the Chinese regime’s increasingly harsh abuses. As Beijing prepares to launch the Winter Games next month, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took yet another step in its level of cruelty in punishing Yang. Frankly, the growing attacks on China’s beleaguered legal community has become so commonplace that much of it no longer registers, and foreign media seemingly find it hard to pay attention to the situation. With the latest development related to Yang, that’s likely to change, as the level of cruelty is shocking even for CCP standards. Yang, 55, has played a key role in China’s rights defense movement for over 15 years as a lawyer who exposed political corruption. He was tortured by authorities and has been in and out of detention for …