‘Even with all this brutality, even with all the billions of dollars, the CCP hasn’t been able to’ change people’s beliefs, said China expert Sarah Cook.
Less than three months after the appeal, on July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party launched the brutal persecution of Falun Gong adherents across China.
The EU has decided to take action after it raised concerns over the issue with the Chinese authorities but received no ’satisfactory replies or action.’
Blinken is on his second trip to China as secretary of state to tackle a series of contentious issues, including trade, human rights, and Russia’s Ukraine war.
A group of Chinese academics in the UK were introduced to projects facilitated by a company that partners with China’s top makers of missiles and rockets.
About 10,000 people congregated in Beijing on a spring day in 1999, in one of the largest protests in China’s recent history—known as the April 25 appeal.