News Commentary: After Singing for Him, Jiang Censors President Bush's Speech

By Fei Ming

(Clearwisdom.net) President Bush's visit to China has drawn worldwide attention, and some of things that happened during his visit are thought-provoking. On the night of February 21, during a banquet, Jiang sang "O Solo Mio" for President Bush. Recently, Big Reference (Da Cao Kao) magazine published an article with an interesting comment on this:

"On the evening of February 21, Jiang Zemin invited U.S president Bush to a feast in Beijing. White House spokesperson Mr. Ari Fleischer said Jiang sang the famous Italian aria "O Solo Mio" during the banquet. Mr. Fleischer said Mr. Bush smiled as he listened and applauded, along with other guests. Later, Mr. Bush said half jokingly to Mr. Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State, that he, Powell, could also sing for the guests, but Mr. Powell politely turned it down. Mr. Fleischer described it as, 'We avoided an international incident.'"

"President Jiang did this performance as the leader of a nation. It is indeed a great damage to the human dignity and the pride of the nation. Fleischer's statement 'avoided an international incident' has already clearly described this incident."

Financial Times published an editorial on February 21, saying:

"When President George W. Bush looks into the soul of Chinese president Jiang Zemin, he clearly does not like what he sees. It was all so different with Vladimir Putin. Last year Mr. Bush warmly embraced the Russian leader and invited him to his Texas ranch. It was a signal that the two men could do business. There was no invitation to a Crawford barbecue yesterday. And there is no sign of warmth between the US and Chinese leaders."

President Bush has adequate reasons to dislike Jiang's soul that he has looked into, because this soul is filthy. In front of great power, he acts like a servant, like a clown who makes a fool of himself to seek favor from the audience. However, when facing weaponless, good people, he becomes as fierce and brutal as a demon. For the past more than two years, this filthy soul has murdered at least 369 Falun Gong practitioners who believe in Truth, Compassion and Tolerance. This filthy soul is especially good at double-dealing. After kneeling in front of President Bush, he immediately deleted parts of President Bush's speech.

Below is a report published on Big Reference:

"President Bush gave a speech at Qinghua University on February 22 and talked about freedom, democracy and law. However, in its published transcript, the Chinese government edited out all parts of the speech involved with freedom and religious faith.

Before President Bush had even boarded Air Force One to leave Beijing, China's state-controlled media put out their version of the morning address. Almost half the speech--large chunks extolling American liberty and urging China to relax its political and religious restrictions--was simply hacked out in the transcript released by the official Xinhua News Agency.

The heavy censorship prompted indignant complaints on the Internet from people who demanded that the full text be restored.

Someone asked in one chat room, 'Why must the Xinhua News Agency kid itself? Does striking out someone's words mean the person never said them?'

'The Chinese media always distort the facts,' another cyber-citizen wrote."

And this is Xinhua News Agency, Jiang's mouthpiece. It even dares to edit a speech by the U.S President, who was invited by Jiang to earn his face; then is there anything it wouldn't do to slander Falun Gong? Does Xinhua News Agency have even the least little bit of morality as a media? Does it have even a little credibility left?

Chinese version available at http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2002/2/26/25678.html

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