Chen Yonglin: CCP Believes Australian Government Can Be Bought
Jun 24, 2005
Picture:Chen Yonglin at the press conference on June 22, 2005 (The Epoch
Times)
When Chen Yonglin, the former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) diplomat
seeking asylum in Australia, first announced his intention to defect, he
told the world about the close relationship between the CCP and the
Australian government, and stressed that the CCP operates a 1,000 person
spy network in Australia. Since then the media has been trying to follow
up on this sensitive topic, but Chen has remained silent. On June 22nd
Chen held a press conference during which he began to elaborate on his
knowledge of the dealings between the two governments. What follows are
excerpts of Chen speaking at the conference.
China Seeks To Make Australia Part of Its Great Border Area
In February of 2005, Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs, held a meeting at the Chinese Embassy in Australia with the
ambassadors and consuls general to Australia and New Zealand, and the
general consuls and the diplomats in charge of political affairs. I
accompanied Qiu Shaofang, the general consul of the Chinese consulate in
Sidney, to attend the meeting.
The main purpose of the meeting was to implement the decision made during
the 10th Meeting of the Chinese Diplomats in Foreign Counties held in
mid-August of 2004, at the suggestion of Hu Jintao, the General Secretary
of the CCP, to make Australia part of the Great Border Area of China.
They asked each consulate to provide its point of view and suggestions for
the next step.
During the meeting, Zhou Wenzhong shared information about the CCP
Central Governments strategic planning toward Australia and the United
States, which is related to the close ties between these two countries.
The CCP wants to break through the military union of the two countries and
turn Australia into a second France. It hopes to shape Australia into a
country that dares to say no to the United States.
China first started crafting its plan to reshape Australia when it
learned that Australia was planning to give up ties with Asia in favor of
stronger ties with the United States. At that time the free trade
negotiations between Australia and the United States were at a climax and
Australia had high hopes of being included in the North America Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA). Meanwhile, Australia had a big court case pending with
Guangdong Province in China, concerning natural gas, which was making it
less and less popular with the Chinese government.
In March of 2003 Tang Jaixuan, the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs,
visited Australia and questioned the Australian government on certain
issues, including issues related to Falun Gong. On the day before Tang
Jiaxuan arrived in Canberra, Alexander Downer, the Australian Minister for
Foreign Affairs, signed an article banning Falun Gong practitioners from
setting up signs and banners or using loud speakers to protest in front of
the Chinese embassy. Since then Downer has continued to sign similar
articles every month, which has made Tang Jiaxuan very happy.
That same year, China initiated the celebration of the 30-year
anniversary of the establishment of the relationship between China and
Australia. The Chinese government sent many groups to Australia to promote
Chinese culture and political ideology.
In 2003 when Hu Jintao visited Australia he received unprecedented
treatment in Canberra. Bob Brown, a congressmen belonging to the Greens-
the opposition party- was not allowed to enter the building where congress
was being held. This was done to prevent the attendance of dissidents and
Falun Gong practitioners that might have shown up as the congressmans
guests. Hu Jintao was delighted and commented to his staff that this was a
sign that the Australian government could be influenced.
In 2005 when Wu Bangguo visited Australia, he requested the same
treatment not to see or hear any protestors or dissidents. Next Year,
China plans to send Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to visit Australia,
and in 2007 Hu Jintao will be in Australia to attend the World Economic
Summit.
The CCP Thinks The Australian Government Can Be Bought
Over the past several years, Chinese officials have successfully built
close personal relationships with their Australian counterparts, all for
the purpose of establishing leverage in the Australian government. The CCP
is convinced that the Australian government can be coerced to follow its
aims through application of economic pressures and incentives. It plans to
use economic pressure to force Australia to cave on political and human
rights issues.
The dialogue on human rights between China and Australia over the past
several years was merely a show put on to appease the Australian public.
In fact, there was no progress made. When high-ranking Australian
officials visited China, they did not raise any human right issues. I knew
what was said during their visits, because a summary news brief of each
visit was sent to the consulate.
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Helped the CCP to Wriggle Out of a
Difficult Lawsuit
Due to the nature of my work as a diplomat, I have witnessed many
instances of secret dealing between the Chinese and Australian
governments, and such knowledge has weighed heavily on my conscience. I
know that the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Chinese
Embassy in Canberra share all of their information with each other. The
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs even gives suggestions to the
Chinese government on how to handle difficult political issues.
For example, Zhang Cuiying, a Falun Gong practitioner, lodged a lawsuit
in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against the former Chinese
president and the 6-10 Office for genocide, torture and crimes against
humanity. Based on an article of the national amnesty code of Australia,
the lawsuit was not handled by the Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade, but by a special substitute process. This greatly embarrassed the
Chinese government and caused it much distress, because it did not want to
have to face Falun Gong practitioners in open court proceedings.
To help the CCP, the Australian Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade
provided several solutions. Dr. Geoff Raby, Deputy Secretary of the
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, promised the Chinese
government that when he visited China in March, 2005 that he would ask for
the materials from the Supreme Court, cancel the lawsuit by the Falun Gong
practitioners and put an end to the charges against the Chinese leader.
Raby later regretted making this offer.
The Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade offered another solution: to
have the Chinese government send a representative to stand trial in place
of the leader, and thus expedite the lawsuit. The Chinese government did
not adopt this suggestion and instead decided to put pressure on the
ministry, which resulted in the ministrys cooperation in preparing many
legal documents to assist the CCP.
Chen ended the press conference with this comment: I have witnessed too
many secret deals between the Australian and Chinese governments. I am
really concerned that I will be betrayed. Therefore, in case I should run
into sudden misfortune, I have spoken my mind to the public.
Please see Part I, Chinese Defector Tells of Government Plot and Part
II, Chen Yonglin Describes Abduction by Chinese Agents in Australia.
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Hao Fengjun Reveals Facts of the 610 Office
Hao Fengjun, from Model Police Officer to 610 Office Defector
By Li Hua
The Epoch Times
Jun 19, 2005
Hao Fengjun being interviewed (The Epoch Times)
MELBOURNE - Hao Fengjun never thought his visit to Melbournes Epoch Times
office on June 4, 2005 would send shock waves throughout Western society.
Hao chose to step forward to tell people why he defected from his post as
a police officer in Chinas notorious 610 Office. He risked his own and
his familys lives to help people understand the situation in China.
A Model Police Officer at the Public Security Bureau Branch Office
Hao Fengjun was once a model police officer. He believes that law
enforcement is a sacred profession. As a child he loved martial arts and
dreamed of becoming a policeman. He realized this dream when, in 1994, he
graduated from the Department of Law in Nankai University and joined the
Heping district branch of public security bureau in Tianjin city.
I was a public security police officer in Heping district, Tianjin city
from 1994 to 2000. I thought a policeman should punish evil, encourage
kindness and promote righteousness. This is how I thought and this is how
I worked. I received excellent ratings almost every year. I solved two
large-scale drug-deals and several robbery cases and was awarded Detective
Third Grade. In the chief police officer election in 1998, I was elected
to be a first-level police officer. I led over a dozen policemen from my
office to protect the area. I felt that I had reached the peak of my
career.
No Policeman Wants to Work at the 610 Office
In October 2000, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) transformed the Tianjin
public security division into a public security bureau. This was a
combination of the former department of administration and security with
the mechanism of the 610 Office. (Editors Note: the 610 Office is a
Gestapo-like special security force charged with eradicating the
practice of Falun Gong, using any means however brutal.) The change
improved the ability of the 610 Office to suppress the meditation
practice Falun Gong. The 610 Office has the power to issue orders to
outside organizations and conduct other organizations investigations.
Although the 610 Office openly recruited within the public security
system, it received only one application. The Tianjin public security
bureau came up with a solution- to arbitrarily transfer people. Under
orders from the Tianjin public security bureau, each branch office uses a
computer program to pick at random which employees have to transfer to the
municipal security bureau. If the person fails to register at the
municipal security bureau, he will be dismissed from work. Unfortunately
Hao Fengjun was selected and transferred to the place that nobody wants to
be.
610 The Nightmare Begins
The first day that Hao Fengjun stepped into the 610 Office, he knew it
was not the right place for him.
When he joined the 610 Office in October of 2000, there were over 40
people in one office. Hao Fengjuns boss handed him a thick stack of
records, including details about the supposed crimes of Tianjin Falun Gong
practitioners and the CCPs guidelines about Falun Gong. Haos boss asked
the newly transferred 27-year-old young man to learn, study and memorize
the materials in order to build a solid foundation for future
assignments requiring him to persecute Falun Gong.
They tried to brainwash me. It goes on every day, Hao Fengjun said. I
was never able to put my heart into it or sit still. I knew the 610
Office monitored, arrested, and persecuted innocent people such as Falun
Gong practitioners and other dissidents. I was tired of it. In the end I
just showed up at the office but I did not do any work. I didnt think
this was the kind of job that a true policeman would do. Whenever I could
no longer read the materials and wanted to walk around, seniors in the
office who were quietly reading the newspaper would turn around and look
at me. I felt suffocated.
The seniors at the 610 Offices are CCP cadres who have worked for years
in the department of administration and security. According to Hao, they
regard punishing dissidents for the CCP as their career. They do not trust
the young men who have transferred from local offices. Hao said he could
not always escape by walking around the office and had to learn to bear
it.
He wasnt happy at home either. The excitement he once felt from solving
cases was replaced with silence and despair.
In the 610 Office people talked to each other with their hands covering
their mouth. They keep their voices low and are always looking around.
After being in such an environment for a long time, people even talked
like this in public. People are always afraid of being heard and are
paranoid, as if they have mental problems.
The 610 Office Has a Yearly Arrest Quota
When Hao Fengjun started to work for the 610 Office he was assigned to
the 1st Team. As a member of the 610 Office my job was to guide and
coordinate with local offices to crack down on Falun Gong and analyze
collected materials.
A lot of information came from overseas. Hao Fengjun said, The Australian
government has been saying that only the key Falun Gong members would be
dealt with [by the CCP] and ordinary practitioners would not be punished.
I think the Australian government does not understand the true nature of
the CCP. If it only targets key members, it should be limited to a
small-scale operation and would not involve every level of the police
force. If it were a small-scale operation, the authorities would not care
about what practitioners in other parts of the world are doing. However,
Falun Gong practitioners all over the world are under CCP surveillance. I
personally received intelligence information about Falun Gong
practitioners in Australia, the United States and Canada. The CCP collects
information on overseas Falun Gong practitioners. They hope to develop
strategies and policies to dissolve the Falun Gong group internationally,
eventually eliminating the group.
The CCPs monitoring of Falun Gong includes those practitioners who live
in Tianjin. Over 30,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Tianjin have been
registered. Every year superiors give the police a 10-percent quota. This
means that the number of people the police detain, put into forced labor
camps, juvenile re-education camps, or brainwashing classes must be 10
percent of the total number of practitioners. Take 30,000 Falun Gong
practitioners as an example. Ten percent is 3,000 practitioners. So Hao
had to arrest, detain and brutally transform eight or ten Falun Gong
practitioners every day.
Since November 2004 when The Epoch Times published the series of editorial
articles the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, the 610 Office
has had additional work.
The 610 Office of the public security bureau is responsible for
monitoring and analyzing those who resign from the CCP. Every resignation
published on the Epoch Times Tuidang (Quit the CCP) website is reviewed by
the city where it was posted. The Tianjin public security bureau has a
Falun Gong database with 30,000 Falun Gong practitioners records. They
monitor the withdrawal website every day. For example, every day a report
with a list of names that resigned from the CCP is generated. They search
the Falun Gong database for matched names and more information, including
which local office they belong to. The information is passed to the local
office and the local office then handles the cases. In that way, whoever
publishes a resignation with their real name will be arrested.
All News about Falun Gong Coming from the 610 Office is Fake
Since I did not want to get involved in these activities and did not want
to pressure local offices, I was not able to complete my quota. From a
policeman who got rewards every year, I gradually became a policeman who
failed to meet the requirements of the 610 Office and who finally lost
his job as a police officer. I was demoted to the support staff.
Hao Fengjun went on: Actually the staff at the branch level is not
willing to persecute the detainees that they work with every day. Falun
Gong practitioners could be their next-door neighbors. How could they
possibly detain them? And they did not do anything wrong - how could we do
it?
After witnessing Sun Ti, a Falun Gong practitioner, being beaten by the
police at the 610 Office (Case 103 by the 610 Office), Hao Fengjun
felt that he could not work there any more. Sun Ti was one of more than
70 Falun Gong practitioners that had been arrested. I saw her sitting on a
bench in the interrogation room. Her eyes were practically swollen shut.
The interrogator was Mu Ruili, the 2nd team leader of the 610 Office.'
He
had in his hands a steel rod 1.5 centimeters in diameter. On the desk was
a high-voltage electric baton. After I came into the room, Mu Ruili was
ordered to leave. Sun Ti cried. She lifted her blouse and showed us her
wounds. Because she was a woman I wanted to leave. She asked me to stay
and said that she only wanted to show me. She turned around and lifted up
her clothes. I was shocked. There was not one piece of normal skin in her
back. Her back was all black and blue with two 20-centimeter-long cuts
oozing blood.
At that moment, I felt my heart break.
I once told my boss that I was incapable of doing this job. I asked him
to let me go back to the local office. My boss said: Thats not going to
happen. It took us so long to collect these people and we still need more
help. How can I let you go? Once you are here, you cannot leave. In the
end, my boss did transfer me to a team that does not handle Falun Gong
cases, the 4th team. Later I became my boss driver.
The CCP said that it treats Falun Gong like breeze and rain during
spring time,' and like a parent disciplining their children. I would
just
like to know: Would parents starve their children and beat them to death?
Ordinary people cant see the truth about Falun Gong. They only hear
slurs the CCP has invented about how Falun Gong is harmful to people,
inventions such as the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square[1]
and the Beggar Murderer cases (in which a series of murders committed by a
man with a long history of mental problems was blamed on Falun Gong.) The
CCP wants people to think that Falun Gong is an evil cult. The government
blames all societys ills on Falun Gong.
The CCPs media only broadcasts pictures of very clean and neat labor
camps with policeman treating Falun Gong practitioners humanely. They say
the governments compassionate treatment moves Falun Gong practitioners to
tears. All those scenes are fabricated. The people you see might not be
genuine Falun Gong practitioners. I saw the making of one of these
fabricated TV programs. One CCTV (China Central TV) reporter interviewed
the Falun Gong practitioner Jing Zhanyi in our bureau. Even the 610
policemen thought the things Jing Zhanyi said were completely untrue. I
witnessed how the head of our bureau taught Mr. Jing what to say before
the interview. He threatened Mr. Jing that if he failed to say what he was
told, Jings detention would be extended. Mr. Jing recited his lines like
an actor.
Being against the CCP Is Not Betraying China
Hao Fengjun made up his mind to leave the control of the CCP and explore
the democracy and freedom in the West. He finally arrived in Melbourne on
February 15, 2005, and applied for asylum. In Australia on June 8, Hao
Fengjun publicly announced his resignation from the CCP in front of the
media.
Hao Fengjun said, The thing that touches me the most is that the
Australian people can say what they want when they want, anything from joy
to anger. But in China it is impossible for people to express their
feelings. There is no medium for them to vent their joy or anger. They do
not have that freedom. They have to bear their suffering silently.
Someone accused me and Chen Yongli of betraying China. I want to ask this
person: If in Australia the Green Party or the Labor Party disagrees with
John Howards policies, do you think it is unpatriotic? The notion that
being against the CCP means that you are against China is the result of
the CCPs incessant brainwashing.
I love my country and the Chinese people. It is a beautiful country with
abundant resources. But I am against the way the CCP treats the Chinese
people and I am against its prosecution of dissidents. Several days ago I
quit the CCP and other CCP related organizations - the Youth League and
the Young Pioneers. All of a sudden I felt light and relieved. I felt as
refreshed as grass covered in early morning dew.
Advice to Chinese People in Australia
Hao Fengjun said: Life in Australia is tougher than life in China. The
reason I came here is not to seek a better material life, but to look for
a way to extricate myself from the heavy burden of my experiences. I want
to expose their dark nature to the people of the world so they will have a
better understanding of the CCP.
As a former employee of the CCPs public security system, I recognize the
fabrications of my ex-coworkers when I read them in news articles. I hope
those who know the truth about the CCP will tell the truth. Those who work
as the CCPs mouthpiece and do secret work for the CCP, please step down.
Your behavior and your articles clearly expose you. Your intention is well
known. When the CCP collapses, how will you face your own people?
Note:
[1] On January 23, 2001, a small group of people apparently set themselves
on fire in Chinas Tiananmen Square. The state-run Xinhua news agency
reported the incident with unusual speed, claiming that the immolators
were practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice. Evidence shows
that this incident was staged, a ploy used to turn public opinion against
a group already persecuted for their beliefs.
To view a slow-motion analysis of the film of the incident, please go to
www.faluninfo.net/videosonline.asp
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****The Statements of Defecting Chinese Sparks Debate in Canadian
Parliament******
Following the statements made by defecting Chinese agents about the Chinese spy
network
in Canada, the threat of Chinese spies in Canada is getting more recognition
from the government.
According to Hao Fengiun, a former 610 Office agent in China, there are over
1000 agents in Canada
whose primary task is to imform on Falun Gong and other religious grougs
persecuted by the Chinese
government.
Conservative leader Stephen Harper pressed Prime Minister Paul Martin in the
House of Commons
Wednesday for not doing more to protect Canadians and defend the nation's
soverignty from foreign agents.
Today the former head of the CSIS [Canadian Security and Intelligence Service]
Asia desk confirmed
reports from defectors that close to 1000 Chinese government agent spies have
infiltrated Canada,
said Harper.
Did the Prime Minister explicitly raise this violation of our sovereignty when
he met with leading
Chinese government officials in Beijing earlier this year? Asked Harper.
The Prime Minister indicated that he did raise the issue when he met with
Chinese officials.
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