They are dealing with democracy quickly and much more
efficiently than we dealt with terrorists in Gitmo.
I have to disagree about political risk in the US being higher
than in China. If there is any remote risk in the US,
that would be for us to become "them". That would be
a nightmare. China is politically a totalitarian society.
Note the issue of "state security". Dangerous stuff. <G>
en.wikipedia.org
Foundation
While the earliest date listed for the founding to be June 25,
1998, the group registered the party on June 28, 1998 when
Bill Clinton was visiting China.[3] Wang Youcai, one of the
main activists during the 1989 Tiananmen protest along with
Wang Donghai and Lin Hui went to the Civil Public Affair Hall
of Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province to officially register this
party. The registration was declined.[3]
Communist Party response
The next day on June 29, 1998, Wang was arrested by the state
police at his own home in front of his family members. He was
charged with creating opposition against the Chinese
government.[3] His trial began on December 18, he had no
lawyer defense, his trial lasted only a few hours. He was
quickly sentenced on December 21, 1998 to 11 years of
imprisonment and three years of deprivation of political
rights for subversion.[3]
On the same day, Xu Wenli, a 55 year old member was also
sentenced to 13 years for overthrowing the Communist party.[4]
On December 22, 1998, Qing Yongmin was sentenced to 12 years
to prison for harming state security.[4]
Li Peng, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress at the time proclaimed, "If a group is
designed to negate the leadership of the Communist Party, then
it will not be allowed to exist."[1] |
