tasty bite-sized portions of Peking Duck
I've just discovered this fascinating blog called The Peking Duck covering China issues. I'm jonesing for the Asian perspective and I don't mean the Asian-American p.o.v. either.
But according to Reuters Chen Yonglin was granted permanent residence in Australia on July 8 -- I was too busy travelling to catch up with him, and now Chen has testified before a US Congressional Committee that there are members of China's diplomatic corps whose sole job is to persecute Falun Gong. Those Falun guys are nuts -- they think stretching your arms above your head for hours at a time can make you immortal, but the lengths to which the CCP will go to stamp them out makes of this a vivid illustration of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (once again) -- the cult is superstitious and backward, but the means by which the Enlighteners want to stamp it out are violently authoritarian.
But according to Reuters Chen Yonglin was granted permanent residence in Australia on July 8 -- I was too busy travelling to catch up with him, and now Chen has testified before a US Congressional Committee that there are members of China's diplomatic corps whose sole job is to persecute Falun Gong. Those Falun guys are nuts -- they think stretching your arms above your head for hours at a time can make you immortal, but the lengths to which the CCP will go to stamp them out makes of this a vivid illustration of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (once again) -- the cult is superstitious and backward, but the means by which the Enlighteners want to stamp it out are violently authoritarian.
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