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Radio France Internationale: Chen Yonglin's Defection to Australia is due to his Opposition to China's Persecution of Falun Gong
(Clearwisdom.net) On June 8, 2005, Radio France Internationale
reported that Mr. Qin Jing, Chairman of the Alliance for Chinese Democracy in
Australia, was interviewed by a reporter about the political asylum application
made to the Australian Government by Chen Yonglin, First Secretary of the
Chinese Consulate-General in Sydney. When interviewed, Mr. Qin Jing said that there were two reasons for Chen
Yonglin's defection. The first one was that he was against China's high-pressure
policy towards dissidents, which was a political matter. The other was that he
was against China's brutal persecution of the Falun Gong group, which has been
consistently extended to foreign countries. When talking about the defection to Australia of another Chinese security
official, Hao Fengjun, Mr. Qin pointed out that this case was different from
Chen Yonglin's defection because the "6-10 Office" that Hao Fengjun
used to work for was established exclusively for the suppression of Falun Gong
in 1999. Mr. Qin Jing added that in his opinion, these cases signaled that many people
within the Chinese government are not happy about the Chinese Communist regime's
systems. Therefore, they defect from China as soon as an opportunity arises.
This phenomenon indicated that China's authoritarian rule is unpopular among its
people. Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200506/27093.html |