SYDNEY, Australia - Last week China’s ambassador to Australia, Ms. Fu Ying, accused Chinese defector and former diplomat Chen Yonglin of greed and said that granting Chen asylum in Australia would “open the floodgates.” According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Fu spoke at the Asialink Ambassadors’ Series luncheon at the inaugural Australia-China Coal Summit in Melbourne.
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Chen has replied to Fu’s remarks by saying that they are absurd. Chen said that if he were greedy, then he would not have abandoned his post. Because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has so many corrupt officials, if he had stayed he would have made much more money than by coming to Australia. He said that it was precisely because he had not agreed with the corruption and tyranny of the CCP that he left. Otherwise, why would he support democratic movements, sympathize with Falun Gong, and risk his own life to escape? The accusations made by Fu best describe Fu herself, he feels.
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At the luncheon, Fu said, “But China, the country he [Chen] dislikes now, offered him the best that a young Chinese man can have. Now that that's not good enough for him anymore, he wants something better? He wants what Australia has, with a GDP 27 times higher than that of China. Just to be accepted into another country, he has attacked his motherland. There are other people like him--he's not the first and he won’t be the last--there may very well be more. If these people can succeed, then you know that many more will follow.”
Chen believes that Fu, in the same way as the Chinese government did before, is putting pressure on the Australian government to persuade the government not to grant him asylum.
Chen again said that he hopes more members of the CCP will follow his path, not for material gain but for true freedom and democracy by ridding themselves from the CCP’s tyrannical rule, and distance themselves from the company of corrupt officials.
Chen also believes that Fu’s remarks clearly show how the CCP will say whatever will benefit it and how it proceeds in all cases from the interest of politics. The CCP claims its economy is booming. According to the CIA World Factbook, however, “in per capita terms the country is still poor”--in 2004 China ranked 121 with a per capita income of only $5,600.
Chen said that it is precisely because of his deep love for his motherland that he resigned and chose to step forward to expose the CCP’s persecution of its own citizens. It is his compassion that gave him the courage to not back down under the CCP’s pressure.
Who is Ambassador Fu?
Chinese websites reveal that Fu was once a translator for dictators, such as Deng Xiaoping, Yang Shangkun, Jiang Zemin, and Li Peng. In 1999, she was named China’s ambassador to the Philippines and at that time was the first ethnic minority female ambassador and the youngest female ambassador. Her husband, Hao Shiyuan, heads the Institute of Nationality Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Fu’s father, Ah Min, the former Inner Mongolia Military Region’s deputy propaganda chief, was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. The persecution left him in poor health that led to his eventual death. Because her father was punished and labeled a ruling capitalist in the Party, she was expelled from school. In 1970, she went to Inner Mongolia Production and Construction Corps. She once said in public about that time of her life, “I carry with me in the depths of my memory the extreme hunger, cold, physical exhaustion, mental stress, and political discipline. It was the most precious time of my life.”
Chen raised doubts about this and said, “If Ambassador Fu thinks that the persecution she went through was precious, then does that mean her father’s death is precious to her too? This clearly shows that Fu went against her own conscience in her pursuit for power and wealth. She blindly follows orders handed down from the CCP.” Chen hopes that Fu will soon find the courage to resign from her post. He wants her to pursue morality, righteousness, justice, and ethics; give up her obsession with position and luxury; and join those who have resigned from the CCP in order to stop helping the evildoers continue their evil.
Chen will provide more specific inside details, including the CCP’s penetration of overseas Chinese communities on Sunday, July 10 in Ashfield, Australia. The public is welcome at this event.
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