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Re: Chinese Student Who Sparked Furor Says Public Apology Letter Is a

by pg <penang@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 20, 2008 at 12:03 AM

Like Raymond, the girl is a BANANA after the GREEN CARD !!!





On Apr 19, 5:38 pm, tuna <tu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2008/04/18/china_tibet/
>
> Chinese Student Who Sparked Furor Says Public Apology Letter Is Fake
> 2008.04.18
>
> Cantonese re****ter Ho Shan interviews
> Grace Wang.
>
> WA****NGTON=97The Chinese student who sparked outrage among Chinese
> nationals who say she sided with Tibetans at a Duke University campus
> protest says a public apology letter pur****tedly written by her father
> is a fake.
>
> =93That wasn=92t written by them. I have been in touch with my parents.
> They told me very clearly that it wasn=92t written by them,=94 Grace
Wang,=

> 20, from Qingdao, told RFA=92s Mandarin service. =93I don=92t know who
wro=
te
> it.=94
>
> =93I=92m sure. They were very clear about that. They also said they knew
I=

> would never do anything to betray my country,=94 Wang said. =93They said
> that they were just lying low, waiting in silence for the coming of
> spring, as it were, until everyone had calmed down a bit and could
> take a different view of the matter.=94
>
> Wang claims that she was only trying to mediate at an April 10 campus
> vigil, in which several dozen pro-Tibetan students were facing off
> with several hundred Chinese students. She doesn't sup****t Tibetan
> independence. But she gave up under verbal assault from the Chinese
> side.
>
> A few hours later, she published an online essay to the Duke Chinese
> Students and Scholars Association forum, calling for tolerance=97and
> sparking thousands of e-mails and hundreds of phone calls. Her
> personal data appeared on the Internet, she received death threats,
> her home in China was vandalized, and her parents are in hiding.
>
> =93My mother told me they sup****t me,=94 Wang told RFA=92s Cantonese
servi=
ce
> =93My father thinks he may have to change jobs=97but he has no regrets.
I
> just had a phone conversation with them. My father is firm in his
> position and mom also said =91 Don=92t worry. =91=93
>
> =93My parents just told me that someone released a statement or
> something under their names. They didn=92t see it and they don=92t want
to=

> see it. They told me if I see it to just ignore it=85They said they are
> safe and I have to protect myself. Justice will prevail.=94
> Phony letter
>
> The phony apology, widely circulated on the Internet and pur****tedly
> written by Wang=92s parents, said: =93On behalf of Wang Qianyuan, we beg
> the forgiveness of the people of China, the forgiveness of all the
> Chinese in the world. We beg the entire nation to forgive her
> ignorance and give her an op****tunity to rectify her mistake.=94
>
> =93Every morning [and evening] we exchange e-mails to say we are still
> alive, and that everything is fine,=94 she said. =93They are being very
> tight-lipped and not saying much about it. I think they are on the
> run. I don=92t know their exact location. They aren=92t telling me. I
> think that=92s because they are afraid the Chinese government will
> intercept the e-mail.=94
>
> =93I don=92t know when they moved out or where they are staying now. But
> at least they seem to be all right according to their e-mails. At
> least they say they=92re safe. Now it=92s got to the point where it=92s
no=
t
> a question of what I say making them worry; it=92s me who=92s
worrying.=94=

>
> An official at the Qingdao police station, contacted by telephone,
> acknowledged that the Wang family had been threatened and their home
> vandalized. He declined to give out further information. =93We can=92t
> present our information to the public,=94 the officer said.
>
> Wang said Thursday she had stopped attending cl***** and had extra
> police protection, but she said she worried mostly about her family in
> China. She said she didn=92t believe her life was in danger.
> A champion of free expression
>
> =93My parents sup****t some of my views and oppose others. But I
wouldn=92t=

> expect them to think the same as me. That would be terrifying, if
> everyone thought the same way.
>
> Asked how her fellow students were treating her, she replied: =93I was
> beginning to think that the whole thing would just blow over. But
> actually it=92s not going to blow over until there is some sort of
> settlement, some justice. It doesn=92t really matter what they say to
> me. The incident itself will probably blow over, but the problem will
> remain. The truth is still out there if we want to go after it.=94
>
> =93I think some of them sup****t me because they feel that I am a young
> female student who is being bullied, but I tell them it=92s not me they
> should sup****t, but the truth. I would just like them to sup****t the
> right to freedom of expression.=94
>
> =93I have had threats from a lot of people, both spoken and written. I
> get a lot of e-mails, but I don=92t read them. I just delete them. I
> don=92t bother trying to find out who is sending them. I believe that
> everyone has the right to free speech, and also the right to say the
> wrong thing sometimes and to be forgiven for it.=94
>
> Wang doesn=92t sup****t Tibetan independence=97she sees herself as a
> champion of human rights and free expression. =93I think that Tibet is
> definitely a part of China. It is indivisible from China. This means
> that we must deal with Tibet and Tibetans as our brothers and
> compatriots,=94 she said.
>
> =93That means that we should use other methods than those used to deal
> with outsiders. You can use whatever methods you think expedient with
> outsiders, even very forceful methods. But with Tibetans we are
> dealing with our own relatives. There should be more reason and more
> relatedness in our dealings with them.=94
>
> Original re****ting by Shen Hua for RFA's Mandarin service and Ho Shan
> and Lillian Cheung for RFA's Cantonese service. Cantonese service
> director: ****ny Li. Mandarin service director: Jennifer Chou.
> Translation by ****ny Li and Luisetta Mudie. Written and produced in
> English by Sarah Jackson-Han.
 




 4 Posts in Topic:
Chinese Student Who Sparked Furor Says Public Apology Letter Is
tuna <tuna2@[EMAIL PRO  2008-04-19 17:38:21 
Re: Chinese Student Who Sparked Furor Says Public Apology Letter
Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSP  2008-04-20 13:34:04 
Re: Chinese Student Who Sparked Furor Says Public Apology Letter
"J.Venning" <  2008-04-20 07:43:22 
Re: Chinese Student Who Sparked Furor Says Public Apology Letter
pg <penang@[EMAIL PROT  2008-04-20 00:03:33 

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