1.6 “Black Hole 6″: Extending the Persecution Overseas
1.6.1 Spending Billions to Buy Over and Control Overseas Media
To attack the overseas Falun Gong groups and their activities for opposing the persecution, Jiang spared no expense to buy in overseas Chinese media. On November 21, 2001, Jamestown Foundation in the U.S. published a report titled “How Chinese Government Attempted to Control Chinese Media in the U.S.” on “China Brief.” This article exposed the main strategies Chinese Communist Regime took to intervene in overseas Chinese media, which included control the stocks by investment, promising commercial profit inside China, purchasing time period of broadcasting and reserving space on newspaper for advertisement from independent media as well as providing programs and information to them. Chinese authority arranged to have former government staff work at these independent media and these staff helped to play an important role as an inside employee.
According to the investigation, Chinese official propaganda machine has implemented a blockage policy on most of overseas media. But Sing Tao Daily and China Press mentioned in Jamestown Foundation report, as well as Les Presses Chinoises and others are approved Chinese media by China. According to incomplete statistics, more than 320 articles slandering Falun Gong have published on China Press in New York between July 20, 1999 and July 2002. Not long, those articles appeared on all major Chinese official newspapers and web pages, widely re-printed by media inside China and became an important part of anti-Falun Gong propaganda, to prove that the crackdown has obtained “international support”, so as to further drive the persecution in mainland China. Considering strict censoring in Chinese propaganda system, an ordinary oversea report would be hard to appear on the official media without special “approval”. We would like to point out specifically the Les Presses Chinoises in Canada. It has not only re-printed large amount of articles slandering Falun Gong from China, its own articles defaming Falun Gong was also quoted by Chinese official media in the shortest time. At present, the Les Presses Chinoises libel case is in the final stage .
Influenced by the slandering and hate propaganda of Falun Gong from CCTV4 and other Chinese oversea media, tempted by the economics interests and ordered by the Chinese embassies and consulates abroad, violent attacks of oversea Falun Gong practitioners have happened in places of North America, such as Huston, Chicago, New York and Canada.
For example, Liang Guanjun is the chairman of the New York Chinese United Association. He has interfered and made troubles many times with the legal activities of Falun Gong practitioners in New York. He has spread the hate propaganda against Falun Gong among local communities in many occasions. China News Net reported: “On April 21, 2001, about 100 members of New York Chinese United Association contended face to face with Falun Gong on the six sites along their parade route.”
Around 10pm on June 23, 2003, an ill-intended beating case took place in front of the Yidong Restaurant in New York City Chinatown. Led by the New York Chinese United Association Chair Liang Guanjun, a group of people beaten up and injured several Falun Gong practitioners. Liang was arrested on the charge of “3rd degree assault” .
On August 16, 2002, the Canadian Radio Standard Committee (CRSC) issued a ruling to the complaint regarding the Chinese City TV Station in Canada’s re-broadcast of a murder case report from CCTV. The verdict pointed out that the re-broadcast of the CCTV report linking a murder case in China with Falun Gong by the Chinese City TV Station on December 16, 2001, has violated the “Professional Ethics Guideline” and the “Guideline on Violence” created by CRSC, as well as four regulations in the “Media Professional Ethics Guideline” from the Radio and TV News Chief Editor Association .
On September 25, 2000, CCTV9 started to broadcast. Together with CCTV’s Chinese international channel (CCTV4), their programs have reached audiences all over the world. In the beginning, only 8 satellites were used to cover 98% of continents and oceans. But now, the programs on CCTV4 and CCTV9 rely on 37 satellites for global coverage . Is it really a necessity? And how much money have they spent?
1.6.2 A Variety of Propaganda Materials and Activities Overseas
 Figure 6. Chinese Ambassador in France introducing photo exhibits to personnel in various circles in France and Overseas Chinese in France Photographed by Wei Zhong, ChinaNews Correspondent |
All varieties of propaganda materials have been manufactured to slander Falun Gong and incite hatred, including books, many kinds of pamphlets, and VCDs. Overseas Chinese Communities, libraries, schools and bookstores have become the destinations of the slanderous materials.
A large number of high quality printed pictures and posters that viciously slandered Falun Gong were sent to the Chinese embassies and consulates all over the world to set up large-scale exhibits in Canada, U.S., Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, France, Germany, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
They sent out hate-filled propaganda booklets as “official diplomatic letters” to every level of government, officials, media and non-governmental organizations in every country .
Since the suppression of Falun Gong started in 1999, Chinese authority has been sending delegation constituted by more than 500 people to U.N. human rights meetings in Geneva every year to prevent the motions condemning the human rights abuse in China, especially those motions condemning the persecution of Falun Gong. If we calculate the expenditure based on 1,500 dollars per person for air fair plus room and board, in the past five years, the delegation groups have spent 37.5 million dollars.
1.6.3 Overseas Monitoring Network
In order to suppress Falun Gong practitioners’ activity abroad, a great number of public security staff, internet police and spy agents have been sent overseas to collect overseas Falun Gong practitioners’ personal information and compile blacklist.
“Sadly, the unwarranted and unprovoked aggression against Falun Gong has not ceased, nor is it limited to China. There have been unprovoked attacks in the United States and Falun Gong members have been subjected to a humiliating and denigrating blacklist.” US Congressman Frank Fallone said in his speech when House of Representative unanimously passed resolution 304 on October 4, 2004 .
In June 2002, more than 100 practitioners from different countries planned to go to Iceland to protest during Jiang’s visit to Iceland. Some of them were denied visa; some were denied entry at the customs; some were detained in a temporary detention center; some others were barred from boarding the flight to Iceland by Icelandair in the U.S. or Europe. It was shocking news to the whole world that dozens of Falun Gong practitioners were denied boarding Iceland airplanes in several airports. According to Iceland media, Icelandair identified practitioners based on the blacklists provided by Chinese authority .
“Sadly, the unwarranted and unprovoked aggression against Falun Gong has not ceased, nor is it limited to China. There have been unprovoked attacks in the United States and Falun Gong members have been subjected to a humiliating and denigrating blacklist.” US Congressman Frank Fallone said in his speech when House of Representative unanimously passed resolution 304 on October 4, 2004 .
In June 2002, more than 100 practitioners from different countries planned to go to Iceland to protest during Jiang’s visit to Iceland. Some of them were denied visa; some were denied entry at the customs; some were detained in a temporary detention center; some others were barred from boarding the flight to Iceland by Icelandair in the U.S. or Europe. It was shocking news to the whole world that dozens of Falun Gong practitioners were denied boarding Iceland airplanes in several airports. According to Iceland media, Icelandair identified practitioners based on the blacklists provided by Chinese authority .
On June 5, 2003, the Icelandic Data Protection Authority reached the final judgment regarding the justice ministry blocking Falun Gong practitioners from entering the country based on blacklists. The verdict stated: “It was a violation of law that the Justice Ministry of Iceland provided Falun Gong practitioners personal information to Icelandair and that Icelandic Embassies in the U.S., Norway, Denmark, U.K. and France used the blacklists to block Falun Gong practitioners from entering the Iceland. “
Figure 7. Falun Gong practitioners from different countries barred from boarding Icelandair at Paris airport were on hunger strike. Jiang’s ruffian regime coerced Iceland government to prevent practitioners from entering the country during his state visit.
1.6.4 Monetary Diplomacy and Threatening Foreign Officials
Investment and commercial interest has frequently been leveraged by the Jiang regime to meddle in foreign government’s affairs and coerce participation in the persecution of Falun Gong.
House Concurrent Resolution 304 cited the following facts: “over the past 5 years China’s diplomatic corps has been actively involved in harassing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States;” “journalists have cited fear of hurting trade relationships as the motivation for some local United States officials to recant their support for Falun Gong after receiving pressure from Chinese consular officials;” “San Francisco City Supervisor Chris Daly, after receiving complaints that Chinese officials were intimidating his constituents, authored a resolution condemning human rights violations and persecution of Falun Gong members by the Chinese Government. “
In June 2002, the US House Committee on Human Rights held a hearing on Jiang Zemin regime’s Anti-Human Rights Tactics in the United States . Mayors and City Councilmen from several cities gave testimony to expose how Chinese officials coerced them to annul their support of Falun Gong with threat on economic interest. Randy Voepel, Former Mayor of Santee, CA stated in his testimony “On December 27, 2000, I received a letter signed by Lan Lijun, consul general at the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles, which read, ‘It is our hope that your city, by taking your citizens’ interest into consideration, will earnestly consider the request from the Chinese side that no recognition and support in any form should be given to the Falun Gong cult organizations.’” Mr. Voepel said, “I found it to be very intimidating. “
House Concurrent Resolution 304 cited the following facts: “over the past 5 years China’s diplomatic corps has been actively involved in harassing and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the United States;” “journalists have cited fear of hurting trade relationships as the motivation for some local United States officials to recant their support for Falun Gong after receiving pressure from Chinese consular officials;” “San Francisco City Supervisor Chris Daly, after receiving complaints that Chinese officials were intimidating his constituents, authored a resolution condemning human rights violations and persecution of Falun Gong members by the Chinese Government. “
In June 2002, the US House Committee on Human Rights held a hearing on Jiang Zemin regime’s Anti-Human Rights Tactics in the United States . Mayors and City Councilmen from several cities gave testimony to expose how Chinese officials coerced them to annul their support of Falun Gong with threat on economic interest. Randy Voepel, Former Mayor of Santee, CA stated in his testimony “On December 27, 2000, I received a letter signed by Lan Lijun, consul general at the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles, which read, ‘It is our hope that your city, by taking your citizens’ interest into consideration, will earnestly consider the request from the Chinese side that no recognition and support in any form should be given to the Falun Gong cult organizations.’” Mr. Voepel said, “I found it to be very intimidating. “
How much treasury money has been spent behind these scandals?
A Wall Street Journal article (Feb 21, 2002) said about the Jiang Zemin regime, “The approach, made variously by letter, phone call or personal visit from a Chinese official based at China’s Washington embassy or one of its numerous consulates, tends to combine gross disinformation with scare tactics and, in some cases, slyly implied diplomatic and commercial pressure.” Willy Wo-Lap Lam, a CNN senior China analyst of CNN, said in his article (June 18, 2002) : “China Waged ‘Big-Bucks Diplomacy’”.
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