Question
List for Interviewing Chinese Officials
Interviewing officials from Jiang's regime about
the Falun Gong issue can seem like an exercise in futility, as
they are very well versed in deflecting questions regarding human
rights. We have compiled this list of questions that make it harder
for your interviewee to fall back on boilerplate responses:
Q. Several instances have been documented
of Falun Gong practitioners being assaulted and beaten by Chinese
people in the United States. Many people feel Jiang's hard line
propaganda campaign against Falun Gong is promoting people to
commit crimes like these. Will you condemn violence against Falun
Gong practitioners in America?
Q. In March of 2002, a former Australian
Olympic swimmer was arrested in China for practicing Falun Gong.
Will you allow Western Falun Gong practitioners or supporters
to attend or compete in the 2008 Olympics? And if so, will you
allow them to practice their faith while they're there?
Q. What percentage of foreign investment
in China does Jiang divert to suppressing and defaming Falun Gong?
For example the construction of new labor camps, increases in
the police force, production and broadcast of anti-Falun Gong
propaganda, etc… Is it possible this money could be better
spent to help some of the problems in China such as the emerging
AIDS crisis?
Q. Falun Gong is practiced in over 50 countries
around the world, so why do we hear negative stories about Falun
Gong only out of China? In fact, the practice is widely respected
in countries around the world. For example, U.S. Ambassador Mark
Palmer has said, and I quote: “Falun Gong is, in my judgment,
the greatest single spiritual movement in Asia today. There is
nothing that begins to compare with it in courage and importance.”
How do you explain this gaping discrepancy between how Falun Gong
is viewed in China vs. the rest of the world? (Chinese officials
may claim Falun Gong have “deceived” other countries
into being sympatric to the practice, in which case a follow-up
question is in order). So, the over 50 countries around the world
where Falun Gong is freely practiced have all been “deceived”
by Falun Gong and China alone is clear on this issue?
Q. Why has the National People’s Congress,
after three years of persecution, not taken an official position
on Falun Gong?
Q. No other country has reported the types
of atrocious crimes you alleged are carried out by Falun Gong
practitioners. Will you allow credible third party investigations
into all these claims? If so, when? If not, why?
Q. Jiang takes a very hard line against foreign
parties "interfering with China's internal affairs",
yet he make no secret about sending his consular officials into
the office of every single elected official in Washington D.C.
to try to get them to support his persecution against Falun Gong.
They even hold press conferences and employ lobbyists to try to
influence our elected officials to vote against important resolutions
on human rights. He does the same thing all over the world. Why
is it OK for Jiang to be so intimately involved in the "internal
affairs" of other countries? Doesn't that seem like a double
standard?
Q. If Falun Gong is such a terrible menace
to society, how do you explain that the practice is widely accepted
in Taiwan – a land that shares the same history, culture,
and people as Mainland China? The President of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian
has said, and I quote: “I am delighted to learn that your
group [Falun Dafa] is holding the 2001 Taiwan Falun Dafa Cultivation
Experience Sharing Conference in Taipei’s World Trade International
Conference Center…I wish to extend my greetings…Best
wishes for a great success in your activities.”
Q. How do you explain the fact that so many
NGOs, third party organizations and governments have verified
and confirmed the human rights violations against Falun Gong in
China? Do you agree that the rest of the world is justified in
feeling upset with Jiang as he continually insists that the Partly
line be to flatly deny these facts in front of such overwhelming
evidence?
Q. Regarding the astonishing difference between
the claims your regime has made about Falun Gong destroying families
and leading to murders and suicides in China and the reality in
over 50 other countries where Falun Gong is practiced freely and
practitioners are regarded as being peaceful, orderly and good
people, your regime has claimed that the Falun Gong promoted overseas
is not the same as that taught in China. Why then, don’t
you promote the overseas version of Falun Gong in China?
Q. Why was the book Yellow Disaster stripped
of its published status in China and taken off websites shortly
after the self-immolation incident occurred in Tiananmen Square
which your state-run media have attempted to peg on Falun Gong
practitioners, and has used to justify the persecution against
Falun Gong? (The book Yellow Disaster discusses a woman being
paid by the government in order to commit self-immolation in Tiananmen
Square. The woman thought she would escape with money but is murdered
by the government and the incident is used to defame an innocent
group of people)
Q. Mr. Jiang: had you read the book Yellow
Disaster before January 23, 2001?
Source:
FalunInfo.Net
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