Word: gongli
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...long as you were alone. The government can still be brutal--particularly with anyone who tries to organize politically. Remember Falun Gong? After 10,000 practitioners of the meditation philosophy showed up outside Beijing's leadership compound in 1999 to protest discrimination, the government launched an effort to wipe out the religion, arresting and, according to believers, beating thousands of members. In China's Northwest, the government has jailed ethnic Uighurs who complained about Han Chinese repression of Islamic culture. The government also controls the media (a Chinese assistant in the New York Times's Beijing bureau was detained...
...political work. Factor in the increasing intensity of engagement across the board (as well as the pace of globalization more generally) and it's clear that Canberra's China nannies are a busy bunch. A single incident or issue - hardball iron-ore price negotiations, the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement or the defection of a Chinese diplomat, such as Chen Yonglin, the senior consular official in Sydney who has sought political asylum in Australia - is not likely to bring about an irreversible deterioration in relations. The diplomatic game quickly moves...
...political gulf between the two countries; to take a reality check on the diplomatic dynamic; and to get a sense of where the relationship is heading. For some, Chen's lurid allegations about kidnapping, a vast system of espionage involving Chinese nationals in Australia, and the harassment of Falun Gong, seem out of kilter with a China making its reputation on the fecundity of its factories and new millionaires. The wonder of China's economic progress has tended to blot out other considerations about that country's present. Chen has restored some of the balance; not by making China...
...ASYLUM. CHEN YONGLIN, 37, political-affairs consul at the Chinese consulate in Sydney; in Australia. Chen told Australian immigration authorities last week that he was part of a 1,000-strong Chinese spy network in the country responsible for keeping tabs on Chinese dissidents and members of the Falun Gong religious group, and that he would "rather die" than return home. His request has not yet been granted and he remains in hiding in Australia with his family. Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott said Chen "is at no risk of being sent back to China." A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman...
...more to the organization. “Having connections to other cultural groups will really help us bring a lot of students closer. If all the board members are from the same region, you are simply less likely to connect with as many members,” Rebecca R. Gong ’08 says...