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...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...
Keepers of the Flame The Fulan Gong situation TIME, FEBRUARY...
...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...
That being said, most of us recognize that the Quadlings got a raw deal. In general, we welcome you all; the principle provocation of grumblings about the gong are the tables full of Lowell- and Quincy-ites with nary an Adamsian in their midst. We were happy to adopt the PfoHo-ers last year, and I daresay we'd do it again if you asked nicely and/or kicked our butts in football again. Perhaps we should resurrect a suggestion made last year that Adams adopt PfoHo, Lowell adopt Cabot and Quincy adopt Currier, or some arrangement like that...