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Re: Harry Wu Arrested! Amnesty International Call for Support!

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From: Gufeng Xi
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:00
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zxu@rodan.syr.edu (Xu) wrote:

Ironically, most of famous Chinese human right fighters residing
in the US were die-hard communists when they were in China. Ordinary
Chinese
>are always ordinary no matter where they are, in China or the US. These
>ordinary folks have sincere concern about China's human right improvement,
>but they never go to the extremity to misinform American public or
>lie to the US congress.
>Things I saw often in reporting things related to China:  
>1) mixed 1% fact with  99% misinformation and distoration;
2) reported selective partial story that can enhance China's bad guy
>image;
>3) used virtual indirect reference;
>4) used story and events happened many many years ago(
>   typically 30 to 50 years) and presented them
>      as if they were the current reality;
>      5) misinterpretated things intentionally or due to ignorance;
>      6) used one-sided story without verification and analysis.

7) totally ignore all the positive things happening in China
8) focus on single isolated incident which could happen anywhere in the
world

As we have seen, the so called "human right", "democracy" are nothing
but political tools used by the same people who were shouting the
slogans such as "great culture revolution", "class struggle".
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From: joex@cse.ucsc.edu (Gufeng Xi)
Subject: Re: Harry Wu Arrested! Amnesty International Call for Support!
Date: 1995/07/18
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