On the evening of March 28, 2007, ABC-TV's flagship current affairs program Lateline host Tony Jones introduced at the beginning of the program that the Tony Jones said that the CCP's diplomats in Australia had urged Australian Tony Jones said that, despite the CCP diplomat's efforts, there were still Australia's Attorney General Phillip Ruddock is interviewed by The program also showed an interview with the artistic director of the New Artistic Director of the New Tang Dynasty Arts Center and lead She continued, “It's very easy to rebuild a material world, but it While Vina Lee spoke, TV scenes were inserted of Red Guards and Criticism The program also interviewed Australian singer Christian Bischoff who took Christian Bischoff in the NTDTV's 2004 Inaugural Chinese New Christian said in the interview that just before he left Sydney for New York, Christian apparently still feels angry about this to this day. At the end of the program, it once again cited the words in the NTDTV's Right after that, the program commented, “Not if Beijing has it way. The After the program, “Lateline” reported in its news portion that “Lateline” is one of Australia's most famous current affairs
“Lateline” reported in prime time that the New Tang Dynasty Television's
(NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular shows would be staged in Sydney on March
29. The program also exposed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Consulate-General
in Sydney interfering with the show.
NTDTV's Spectacular shows would be staged in Sydney beginning March 29 and
showed footage of the “Divine Performing Arts” performers applying
makeup backstage. The footage was shot by ABC-TV when it covered the event in
Canberra. He also played a TV commercial for the NTDTV program and clips from
last year's show.
politicians not to attend the Chinese New Year's stage performance. The letters
to New South Wales' politicians from the CCP's Consul General in Sydney were
shown on TV.
politicians who saw the performance, such as Australia's Attorney-General
Phillip Ruddock. The program then played part of Ruddock's interview with NTDTV
during the performance in Canberra. Ruddock said, “Often people don't
understand the diversity of China and I think a lot of that has been brought out
in the different dances and presentations that we have seen.”
NTDTV
Tang Dynasty Art Center, lead dancer and choreographer of the “Divine
Performing Arts” Vina Lee. She said that she wanted the audience to
rediscover Chinese history through the performance. She also said that this part
of history was erased by the CCP during the 1960s Cultural Revolution.
dancer and choreographer in the Divine Performing Arts Vina Lee
destroyed people's soul–the culture of their mind. It destroyed almost a whole
generation.”
Meetings during the Cultural Revolution. The scenes then turned to Vina Lee
applying makeup backstage, being interviewed, and the NTDTV program. From
violent struggle to quiet and beautiful dance performances, the scenes showed
quite a contrast.
part in the 2004 Inaugural NTDTV's Chinese New Year Global Gala, and played the
footage of his singing at the gala in New York.
Year Global Gala
he got a call from the local Chinese Embassy. He said, “It was only three
hours before I got on that plane. This guy said, 'Look, we just don't want you
there.' He kept on with me for about 10 to 12 minutes, and I just said in the
end, 'Look, I've got to go. I've got to get on this plane.'” As a result,
the singer was put on a watch list. When he arrived at the Sydney Airport to
check in, he was immediately stopped for an additional check. Later, he found
that the blacklist was not only in Australia, “Wherever I went, I was
searched before I got on the plane. Then, even after they checked all my
luggage, they wanted to check it again.”
commercial, “Together, once again, we will see the time honored traditions
of Chinese culture flourishing in this modern world.”
battle over competing versions of Chinese history is set to continue as the show
moves to other countries, including New Zealand.”
Wang Ning [Nick Wang], editor-in-chief of New Zealand's Capital Chinese News,
was barred from having an interview with member of the CCP's Politburo
Deputy-Premier Zeng Peiyan.
television programs and is known for its outspokenness. It once made detailed
reports on the defection incident of Chen Yonglin from the Chinese Consulate in
Sydney. Last August, when former Canadian MP David Kilgour and Vice-president of
the European Parliament Edward McMillan-Scott visited Australia, “Lateline”
made interview reports on three consecutive nights with Kilgour and
McMillan-Scott, who exposed the CCP's harvesting of organs from living Falun
Gong practitioners. The reports caused tremendous repercussions in the
Australian community. Within several days, the ruling and opposition parties
reached a cross-party agreement to launch an independent investigation over the
allegations of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.
Posting date: 2/April/2007
Original article date: 31/March/2007
Category: Media Reports
