Word: gongli
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Paranoia over controlling its populace has led Beijing to oppress religious and labor groups. U.S. and U.N. observers have condemned the crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement. China hates criticism but must spruce up its image as it bids for the 2008 Olympics...
...About two and a half years ago, she joined with the German company Puma to start up a line of clothing for what she calls "mind/body sports," like yoga, tai chi and chi gong. She's now at work on the fourth collection of the series, called Nuala. The clothes are mostly cotton, though some are microfibers, and are produced in muted, earthy colors such as gray, black, ivory and burnt pumpkin. Some you'd wear in class, some you'd wear to and from...
...friendship. China has continued to sell missile technology to rogue states such as Iran, and has not supported international efforts to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction. The Chinese have stepped up their persecution of Chinese Christians and intellectuals, not to mention their brutal repression of Falun Gong members. In 1998, after the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, a mistake for which the U.S. apologized many times, the Chinese encouraged street protests in Beijing which threatened the lives of the U.S. ambassador and his family. The situation became so dire that embassy personnel began destroying...
Even as the city of Beijing painted its grass green earlier this year to impress visiting inspectors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 10,000 members of the Falun Gong religious movement wasted in prisons for the crime of practicing their beliefs. One hundred fifty of the movement’s leaders have already died in police custody. Meanwhile, China continues to try its citizens in lightning-fast court proceedings, executing them for minor offenses like tax evasion and afterwards harvesting their organs without donor consent. Forced labor is common. Tibetans remain oppressed. And hitting closer to home, the Chinese...
...most students buy the account that appears in China's state-controlled media. "Of course, I know what happened," says Li Shen, 20, a Russian-studies major whose political-science professor taught him, incorrectly, that the U.S. was nominating the head of the outlawed meditation group, Falun Gong, for a Nobel Peace Prize. "The U.S. plane was in Chinese airspace and deliberately rammed...