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Australia: Clarifying the Truth to a Western Diplomat Who Works in Beijing
(Clearwisdom.net) A golden opportunity to clarify the truth to a Westerner
who works in an Embassy in China presented itself last night while we were handing out information
to Mainland Chinese tourists, at a spot where busloads of visitors come to walk on the beach. The lady, in the 30-40 age bracket, approached me asking why we keep trying to
give the Mainland Chinese information, and what information we were giving to them. She stated,
"You people are everywhere doing this round the world. I see you in Germany just the same as
here. Why do you do this"? She said that even she receives materials from us via her email and
she didn't understand why. I shared with her the immense scale of the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners in China and how the propaganda in China deceives many Mainland Chinese, and that all
we are doing is clarifying the facts. We voluntarily come here to give Chinese tourists an
opportunity to understand the reality of the horrific torture of practitioners who merely practice
exercises and try to become better people in the community by incorporating "Truth, Compassion
and Forbearance" into their lives. I also shared Australian citizen Nancy Chen's recent experience of being followed
and then kidnapped while visiting her parents and friends in China. It was only through the
intervention of the Australian Government and its Embassy in China that procured Nancy's release. I
also shared the experience of the Mainland practitioner tortured with 13 deep burns to his legs, who
escaped into Hong Kong and quickly became a stowaway on a ship to the USA, where he was found in ill
health on the streets and was immediately rescued and taken for treatment to a hospital. I shared with her my own experiences with Falun Gong, the changes in my health
and wellbeing with no need to visit acupuncturists or massage therapists anymore. Also the
large-scale health surveys in China showing how nearly all practitioners had dramatic improvements
in their health. Another statement she made was, "But it's political, for the Chinese in
China anyway. They break into the TV stations and disrupt broadcasts. You are a big organization.
You quickly have people here, there, everywhere. A group even came to Tiananmen Square from
overseas." She mentioned "Your big organization" several times and how all this
material is expensive. I shared that we do not have any organization as such and that we communicate via
our emails round the world, while the materials we hand out are paid for by individual practitioners
with the resources available to them to do so. She listened very intently to details of the
so-called self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square, which she remembered. I was able to show her
photos and explain how it was staged like a movie production, which is very clear on the
deconstruction video. She now understands that we are not political inside or outside of China and that
governments and even local Councilors are supporting Falun Gong in efforts to have practitioners
released from China, especially family members of practitioners round the world. This lady tried to access our website in China and only managed to type in 'Falun'
before her Internet connection was shut down for the next few hours. She carefully folded our flyer
and put it into her handbag and said she will look up the website when she is next in Germany. As I
shared with this lady, some of the Mainland Chinese she was on tour with hovered round listening to
every word. When it was time to go, she thanked me profusely, departing with a very different
perception of Falun Gong than when she arrived. She now understood better why we are everywhere
around the world handing information to the Mainland Chinese. This whole experience, for me, made it crystal clear how enormous the propaganda
in Mainland China is. For a Westerner to work for a number of years in an Embassy in China but still
be blind to the persecution of millions of people who live there is a statement in itself. It is not
difficult to imagine how many people need us to tell them the truth. So, let's "hurry up the
tell them." |