Chinese Diplomats in Thailand Asked Local Chinese Businessmen to Report on Falun Gong Activities

(Feb. 1, 2000)

According to Duowei Chinese news net (January 18), the Chinese Embassy in Thailand held a Y2k banquet entertaining the leaders of the overseas Chinese. During the banquet, a high rank official of the Chinese Embassy made an astonishing speech. Besides asking the hundreds of guests to continue to contribute to the promotion of the relationship between China and Thailand in the new year, he also expressed his wish that they could help the Chinese Embassy by reporting on any activities of Falun Gong practitioners in Thailand in order to attack Falun Gong.

"Asian Weekly" reported that it was the first time that the Chinese Embassy has ever asked the overseas Chinese, who care only about business instead of politics, to attack Falun Gong. It is estimated that there are about one thousand Falun Gong practitioners in Thailand. The founder of Falun Gong has visited Thailand for a dozen of times since 1993 and has held numerous lectures.