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...customs crackdown was part of the USDA's effort to keep the U.S. free of a decidedly unwelcome international visitor: foot-and-mouth disease. Last month the explosively infectious livestock illness began breaking out on farms around Britain. Last week more cases traced to the British infection turned up across the Channel in France. When that happened, the already beleaguered European meat market took another hit: the USDA banned the importation of meat and meat products from the 15-nation European Union (E.U.). Other countries, including Australia and Canada, soon did the same. The U.S. and Canadian bans alone could...
...entrepreneur arrested after articles marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were posted on his website went on trial for "instigation to subvert state power." Huang Qi's case has drawn international interest because it highlights China's struggle to promote the Internet for commercial purposes while trying to control political content. The trial had to be adjourned when Huang, who is in poor health, collapsed. Foreign observers, as well as Huang's family, have been barred from attending...
...others illegally and on the sly. A brutal murder last week of a Christian teacher drew attention to the numbers of such workers throughout the country (see accompanying story). What has drawn less attention is the relative freedom with which they operate, even in the face of a vicious crackdown on "evil cults" like Falun Gong that has led to more than 100 deaths in police custody. Christianity is thriving in China?though its spread not unfettered?and missionaries reflect the growing freedom to worship Jesus. "The amount of personal freedom that people have to practice religion is magnitudes greater...
Evian Wong now has a firsthand taste of the new Hong Kong. The 33-year-old business executive is a follower of the Falun Gong spiritual movement that for the past 18 months has been the target of a brutal crackdown on the mainland. On Jan. 2, Wong awoke as usual at 6 a.m. and made the 10-minute walk from her apartment to a nearby park, where she spent an hour practicing the group's freeze-frame meditation exercises. When she arrived at the office, her boss was waiting. He bluntly told Wong she was fired?despite ?having offered...
...Beijing reacted with fury in January when 1,000 Falun Gong members held a meeting at Hong Kong's City Hall. Nor is there any dispute that the impetus to crush the group is coming from the very top. "Jiang Zemin let it be known that he wanted the crackdown," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing...