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Third Party Commentary: The World Psychiatric Association should First Treat Jiang Zemin
By Lin Baohua September 4, 2002 (Clearwisdom.net) The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) held a one
week-long conference in Yokohama, Japan in late August, the primary focus of which was a research
report regarding the abuse of psychiatry in China. WPA President Juan J. Lopez-Ibor said that the
Chinese government had agreed that a team of psychiatrists could enter China and work with the
Chinese National Psychiatric Association. According to him, China is very cooperative on this issue.
He pointed out that he had discussed this matter with an official of vice-ministerial rank in the
Chinese Health Department to ensure cooperation between the WPA and the Chinese National Psychiatric
Association. However, Robin Munro, the author of the research report and an expert on Chinese
problems, is not so optimistic. He said that the Chinese Health Department actually has only agreed
to the "educational visit" of the WPA. Under international pressure, rather than
completely refuse, the Chinese government has to show a willingness to cooperate with the WPA.
However, he said that he was not sure that it would be a substantive cooperation. It needs to be
determined in the future. Munro pointed out in his report that China follows the method of the
former Soviet Union and often declares political dissidents mentally ill. The situation worsened
ever since China started the persecution against Falun Gong. It seems that Munro is indeed an expert on Chinese problems. He truly knows the
methods that China uses to cope with such an international organization. That is, through so-called
contact and dialogue, China never reaches out to the international community; rather, it forces the
international organizations to reach out to China. Anyone who happens to know the story of how China
dissembled and deceived when President Nixon visited China must know that any visit or investigation
conducted by a foreign organization will never uncover the true situation in China, because the
Chinese ruling Party will "mobilize all their people" so that the international community
will not be able to find out the truth. Take the example of visiting mental hospitals. China will fabricate a whole set
of materials to deceive outsiders. It will ensure that no single dissident exists. Even if the
organization must see certain dissidents or Falun Gong practitioners mentioned by name, China has
its own way to create a "false person" who would be considered to conform to the standard
of human rights to deceive outsiders. Even if the delegation gets to see the real person, that
person would not be allowed to tell the truth after receiving threats and warnings, since once the
organization leaves, the fate of this person and his friends and family will be controlled by the
Jiang government. Rather than investigating the mental hospitals, the WPA should consider running a
psychiatric test on Jiang Zemin to see if this "extraordinary person" has the same
psychiatric problems as Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tzedong. Why would he abuse dissidents? Regarding
the power shift in the Sixteenth People's Conference, why would he dazzle the whole world with his
ridiculous performance? If the WPA can diagnose Jiang's problems and give him the appropriate
treatment, the political situation in China might develop on the right track. |