NEW YORK - Unseasonably hot wind could not deter 30 or so people advocating democracy and human rights in China outside the Chinese Consulate on 42nd Street last Thursday. Their news, they said, was urgent.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that currently rules China and does business with the world, is “more evil” than the Nazi Party, said Mr. Xu Shuiliang of the Chinese Web site, Network Digest, which advocates democracy in China.

Ms. Rong Yi, a New Yorker and former diplomat for the Chinese government, urged her colleagues in the consulate “to come out.” She invited them to join the over two million Chinese people and officials around the world who have publicly renounced their membership in the CCP and criticized it for it for persecuting its own people.

Many people “believe and understand that the Chinese government doesn't believe in personal freedoms,” said Phil Berg, who was leaving the Chinese consulate after a visit regarding his Chinese visa.

Beginning on June 4, the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, three Chinese officials in Australia have publicly defected and sought asylum. The defectors have talked about a network of thousands of Chinese spies across Australia, the United States, Canada and New Zealand that has infiltrated overseas groups of Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, and advocates seeking democracy in China.

The network is made up not only of workers in Chinese consulates and embassies, but also Chinese academics and business people, according to defector Mr. Hao Fengjun, in an interview with The Epoch Times in Australia.

Hao worked for the “6-10 Office” office in China, which is primarily dedicated to wiping out the peaceful spiritual practice Falun Gong. Falun Gong became popular in China in the 1990s. In October, 2000, he witnessed a colleague in the 6-10 Office violently beat a female Falun Gong practitioner with an iron bar. Hao said that after that, he was waiting for his first chance to get out of China.