Friends of Falun Gong USA- News/Media Reports

1. Freedom, Asylum, and the Walls of the 21st Century 09.09.09: Recently in Israel, eight Chinese Falun Gong practitioners’ requests for refugee status were rejected. The Epoch Times asked Michael Horowitz, director of the Hudson Institute’s Project for Civil Justice Reform and Project for International Religious Liberty, to comment on the most recent deportations and the possible repercussions that participating countries could face.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1600

2. Parents of Poison Victims Say China Linking Them to Falun Gong 09.03.09: Authorities in China's south-central Hunan province are associating disgruntled parents of children stricken by lead poisoning with the outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong. Residents of Wenping and nearby Simachong village denied any connection to Falun Gong. They said they were not even familiar with the religious [group]. They just wanted their children to be well again.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1595

3. China’s stimulus package threatens more economic turmoil 02.27.09: Far from representing a new brand of "command capitalism," the Chinese regime, like capitalist governments everywhere, is powerless before the global economic meltdown. Its stimulus package to prop up the Chinese economy is fueling new financial turmoil, economic difficulties and political tension, while offering little relief for working people. All this is creating the conditions for an eruption of political and social unrest.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1545

4. West is Naïve in Business With China, Say Experts 09.25.08: Mr Ng said that from 1949 to 1978 the Chinese Communist Party persecuted the industrialists, the business people, and the rich bourgeoisie through the Cultural Revolution and the Anti-Rightest Movement, causing the rapid decline of the economy. “At that time they saw business as something evil. [Then] after 30 years, the communist party became the new capitalists, and the money ended up in their pockets.” He said it is important for business people to understand that the ruling regime's only principle is that the end justifies the means.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1513

5. EU bans baby food with Chinese milk, recalls grow 09.25.08: The 27-nation EU adds to the growing list of countries that have banned or recalled Chinese dairy products because of the contamination, which has killed four Chinese babies and sickened 54,000. In addition to the ban, the European Commission called for more checks on other Chinese food imports. Outside Shanghai, three zoo babies were found to have developed kidney stones after being nursed with tainted milk powder for more than a year.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1516

6. China issues virus alert after 23 children die 05.04.08: The Chinese Health Ministry issued an alert Saturday over a virus that has killed 24 children and sickened more than 4,000, as it scrambled to fend off a potential scandal over a coverup.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1485

7. Lead-Tainted Toys Prompt Senate Action 03.06.08: Record recalls last year of millions of Chinese-produced toys — from Barbie doll accessories to Thomas the Tank Engine — inspired Congress to try to overhaul the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency charged with ensuring that toys and other products pose no hazard.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1472

8. A Chinese Century? Maybe It’s the Next One 08.19.07: CHINA claims that its economy is growing at 10 to 11 percent a year, and China’s official analysts say that their nation will catch up with the United States long before the 22nd century arrives. Don’t believe it.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1428

9. Answering China 07.20.07: To limit dissent, Beijing censors the internet, with the cooperation of principled western companies like Google. It jails political activists and members of "subversive religions," such as Falun Gong. Prison and military hospitals harvest organs for the lucrative transplant market. The atrocities Beijing encourages are endless and beyond shame.
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1412

10. 'MADE IN CHINA' LABEL WON'T SURVIVE WITHOUT RULE OF LAW 07.16.07: Minxin Pei is a senior associate and director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Washington, D.C. He is the author of "From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union" and "China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy."
www.fofg.org/news/news_story.php?doc_id=1429