CHINA’S COMMUNIST leadership has spent the past few days bombarding the
country’s long-suffering population, and anyone in the outside world who
will listen, with skull-numbing speeches about the supposed
philosophical
breakthrough of President Jiang Zemin.
Technology companies are dashing to China in search of salvation and sales. Many will return broken and beaten.
Jiang Zemin has never been famous for his modesty. But in his farewell
speech to his party comrades last Friday, when he reviewed his 13 years
at
the helm of China’s ruling Communist Party, his rhetoric was
particularly
florid.
China’s roaring industrial economy, its burgeoning consumer class,
and greater individual freedoms of movement, for example, now present an
undeniable veneer of openness. However, dissent continues to be swiftly
crushed as the recent brutal crackdowns on the Falun Gong attest.
News reports on the congress by Canadian, German, Finnish and Hong Kong television agencies, all intended for home audiences, were blocked as they were beamed out of China, reporters said. The footage showed protests in Tibet, practitioners of the Falun Gong and other politically sensitive material.
On September 24 the Hong Kong government firmly publicized Article No. 23, making Hong Kong residents who have become accustomed to democracy and freedom to be at a sudden loss in the face of “instigating subversion” and “instigating splits”.
My family migrated to Australia 20 years ago from the PRC. Our whole family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, simply because my dad went to a Christian school when he was young and my grandparents were living overseas. My dad was separated from us at that time and I was about 5 years old.…
The Chinese Consulate in Chicago offers money to Chinese students to rally a welcoming party for Jiang Zemin to the US – with strings attached.
According to a September 28th report of an overseas Chinese newspaper, the No. 1 Chinese website Sina Net displayed the main page of Falun Dafa’s Minghui Net yesterday. What happened? Internet users who are concerned about Minghui Net and Sina Net are wondering.
I am not a Falun Gong practitioner, but I know them well. I understand what they are thinking and doing. At the same time, since I am also a police officer and a civil servant. I know clearly what the police and civil servants are thinking and doing. I can say that Jiang’s persecution against…
Jiang’s regime has been interrupting VOA, BBC, Free Radio Asia and Taiwan Radio for many years. Not long ago, they started to block both Chinese and Western media and set up firewalls on the Internet to block overseas websites, with an intention to smother its people with the state ideology and prevent them from knowing…
It surprises me that some people think the Chinese government does have some reason to worry about 70 to 100 million people practising Falun Gong.